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From: stefan@wheaton.UUCP (Stefan Brandle )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: Exabyte (8mm) vs DAT (4mm)
Message-ID: <2107@wheaton.UUCP>
Date: 18 Jul 90 04:12:45 GMT
References: <5110@milton.u.washington.edu>
Reply-To: stefan@wheaton.UUCP (Stefan Brandle )
Organization: Wheaton College, IL
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In article <5110@milton.u.washington.edu> lgl@milton.u.washington.edu (Laurence Lundblade) writes:
>My comments are based on reading and no practical experience as we've
>a hard time actually getting one. DEC just keeps saying "real soon now.".

Yep, real soon now.  We have had the 4mm tapes for a while now, and they're
real cute, but we'll be happy when the TLZ04 shows up.  We've had so much
shipping date slipage that I think we should get a mechanic to look at the
automatic transmission in the shipping mechanism at DEC, but they probably
found some problem with the drive and are desperately trying to fix it (or
something like that -- I've haven't actually got an answer to why things didn't
ship on time).  On the other hand, we're a small customer and may be getting
skipped in the queue.  When it gets here, it'll sure be an improvement on
TK50's and and 9-track.

-sb
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