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From: kosma%human-torch@stc.lockheed.com (Monty Kosma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Erasable optical drive
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Date: 8 Jun 90 18:13:13 GMT
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   From: Larry Phillips <lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca>
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   Date: 6 Jun 90 11:05:18 GMT
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   In <1267@nyx.UUCP>, bscott@nyx.UUCP (Ben Scott) writes:
   >In article <21013@snow-white.udel.EDU> kosma%human-torch@stc.lockheed.com (Monty Kosma) writes:
   >>Our connection machine has 50 gigabytes of hard disk (and we have the
   >
   >I'd hate to have to back THAT up to floppy... (sorry couldn't resist)

   Hell, I'd hate to back that up to 2 Gigabyte 8mm media!

actually, funny you mention that, beacuse I do use a tape staging unit
as sort of a "virtual disk" (and the disk is sort of a "virtual RAM"...)--
we have a StorageTek tape unit which writes onto these 200MB tapes (wish
it used 2GB tapes!), but at least its transfer rate is (very) high...
With this setup I can do problems which go up to around two rank 80000 
(dense!) double precision complex matrixes, and that just about fills
up 1000 tapes...