Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!mips!twg.com!david From: david@twg.com (David S. Herron) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: Who's got the biggest SCSI drive actually functioning Message-ID: <7589@gollum.twg.com> Date: 14 Jul 90 23:01:41 GMT References: <1990Jul4.035345.18031@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <31485@cup.portal.com> Reply-To: david@twg.com (David S. Herron) Organization: The Wollongong Group, Palo Alto, CA Lines: 32 In article <31485@cup.portal.com> thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) writes: >xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) ><1990Jul4.035345.18031@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> asks questions concerning large > 5) Has anybody got experience with a streaming tape backup that > runs on the Amiga and can back this sucker up on one tape? > Vendor, prices, software used/needed? As I posted a little while ago -- GVP has the only streaming tape unit on the market Right Now. It's a WangTek 150 and Creative Computers has it for ~$750. I have no experience with it other than that. > 6) Rewritable video disk technology is available for the Amiga > now, but the storage (per diskette) is no greater than this > magnetic drive, and the best price I've seen for the video > disk is around $9K, a bit steep for an unemployable graphics > [ ... material deleted ... ] you must not've been lookin at the right places for video disks. Active Circuits, for instance, has a 600 meg drive for ~ $5000 and media is around $100-$200 (check with 'em for details of course.). There's a couple others listed in Amazing's current product guide.. all in the same ball park. When Eric Lavitsky showed the drive A.C. is selling (this was at the NJ Amiga Users group meeting last december) he said he basically just plugged it in and it worked. You'd hafta type "diskchange" every time you swapped disks, for instance. -- <- David Herron, an MMDF weenie, <- Formerly: David Herron -- NonResident E-Mail Hack <- <- Sign me up for one "I survived Jaka's Story" T-shirt!