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From: ejk@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Ed Kubaitis)
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Subject: 8mm cartridge suppliers, brands, prices, quality
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Date: 15 Aug 90 13:29:43 GMT
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Am working on an application (Unix workstation backup) that will require 
hundreds of 8mm cartridges. Would appreciate information on suppliers, 
brands, prices, and quality. 

Would also be interested in experience with failure modes when low cost 
video-quality cartridges are used: irrecoverable write errors, lower data 
rates due to excessive error recovery, irrecoverable read errors, drive or 
head damage?

Will summarize.  Thanks in advance.
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Ed Kubaitis (ejk@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu)
Computing Services Office - University of Illinois, Urbana