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From: merritt@iris613.gsfc.nasa.gov (John H Merritt)
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Subject: Re: tape/backup systems
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Date: 12 Sep 90 21:39:25 GMT
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In article <1990Sep12.175324.23808@ecn.purdue.edu> ghg@ecn.purdue.edu (George Goble) writes:
>In article <12701@encore.Encore.COM> terryk@encore.com (Terence Kelleher) writes:
>>Although 8mm and 4mm have the capacity to handle the amount of data
>
>The Exabyte EXB-8500 8mm drive, due out in the near future, will do
>30MB/min xfer, and 5GB on a P5-90 8mm tape. This compares to approx 2.5GB
>and 15 MB/min for the current EXB-8200.

In the August 6, 1990 issue of Unix Today, Cybernetics advertizes
8mm with 10.24GB at 60MB/min.
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