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From: kev@hpcpbla.HP.COM (Kevin Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: DAT Tape Backups
Message-ID: <660003@hpcpbla.HP.COM>
Date: 16 Oct 89 06:19:30 GMT
References: <605@mmlai.UUCP>
Organization: HP Computer Peripherals Bristol, UK
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You should be able to buy HP DAT units sometime next year.
I would say "early next year" but I'm not, so don't quote me
on it.

They will be available with HPIB and SCSI interfaces.
Your capacity and transfer rate info looks about right.

Don't know the prices yet.                         

The drives are the product of a collaboration between HP and SONY.
They are intended to replace quarter inch and low-end half inch 
technologies for backup, data interchange, and whatever else 
you use 'em for.

Anyone interested can e-mail me their surface mail addresses.
I'll pass them on to marketing and ask them to send you sales 
literature when it becomes available.


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