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From: dlarson@blake.acs.washington.edu (Dale Larson)
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Subject: Re: Backup devices (was: Re: VCR Backup)
Keywords: WangTek, Syquest, removable media
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Date: 21 Jul 90 17:19:52 GMT
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Please tell me I'm wrong, but I understand this conversation to be saying
that there is _still_ no way to just buy a scsi tape drive and stick it 
in your machine without having a xetec or gvp controller, and then you
have to buy theirs.

I find this _very_ disappointing becasue I was under the impression that
when my A3000 gets here (ordered last week) I could just get a scsi tape
drive and stick it in (or stick it in a shoebox) and _at least_ do 
reliable image backups until there is a way to do reliable file by file
backups.

If you can be nice enough to tell me that I'm wrong and I can just buy 
a tape drive, please do me the additional favor of recomending a drive
and vendor to order the drive from.
--
	There are two ways to improve on human factors in computing:
 to make the programmers less stupid and/or to make the users less stupid.  
		Both are necessary, but neither is likely.
     -Dale Larson, Digital Teddy Bear (dlarson@blake.acs.washington.edu)