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Does anybody know of the price comparison between the dual
gripper option and the high availability option on the 3494? It
would seem that the HA option on the 3494 would be eminently more
useful than the dual gripper option.
We, too, have seen similar statistics to those that Richard
mentioned. When I recognized this several years ago, I was very
disappointed that we had chosen this option. We've had a single
malfunction in our gripper (it was actually the bar code reader)
in the 5 1/2 years we've had our 3494. Given the choice, I think
I'd rather have the 150 or so tape slots that we'd gain without
the option.
-- Tom
Thomas A. La Porte
DreamWorks SKG
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On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Richard Sims wrote:
>We have a 3494 with a dual gripper. Based upon experience, I'd
>recommend not getting a dual gripper unless you have a high
>frequency of tape transitions. I'd expect that few shops have
>that kind of usage, and would find the tape cells otherwise lost
>to dual gripper equipage to be far more valuable.
>
>For perspective: I just got stats from the 3494 Service menu,
>View Usage... Gripper 1: 119711 Gripper 2: 4834
>
> Richard Sims, BU
>
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