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From: era@era.ucar.edu (Ed Arnold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Re: 575Mb fuji eagle and 982Mb hitachi on one XY451?
Keywords: Hardware
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Date: 16 Jun 89 22:39:48 GMT
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X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 38, message 2 of 24

In article <3620@kalliope.rice.edu> young@ll-vlsi.arpa (George Young) writes:
>X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 9, message 7 of 13
>
>On another topic, I've heard a rumor (from an OEM vendor) that the 8mm
>video tape (exabyte, and some other brand) drives now being sold as backup
>media may give way early next year to a cheaper 4mm format.  Anyone know
>about this?

At least one company (GigaTrend of Carlsbad, CA) is already shipping a
product based on 4mm DAT technology.  The storage capacity is 1.2GB.  It
has an SCSI interface.

No, you can *not* play your Twisted Sister DAT tapes on these when you are
through doing backups.	:-)

Ed Arnold, NCAR
era@ncar.ucar.edu