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From: djo7613@blake.acs.washington.edu (Dick O'Connor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Tape backup units
Message-ID: <4128@blake.acs.washington.edu>
Date: 20 Oct 89 20:36:31 GMT
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Organization: Univ of Washington, Seattle
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Keywords: Tape backup, magnetic tape, tape storage


I have a feeling that the shop selling me a 386 machine with 70 meg
hard disk wants too much for the 60 MB tape backup unit ($790), so I'm
looking for suggestions from the net as to alternatives I can purchase
and install myself.

I'm mostly interested in internal units, and 60 MB capacity will do fine.
I've heard of Archive and Mountain units; any specific comments?  And are
there any decent rugged external units you can recommend for carrying
around the office to the six machines we have here?  I don't know if such
units require controller cards or can just hook to a serial port (is
that even possible?)...maybe "portability" isn't all it's cracked up
to be in this case...

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