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From: eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: NeXT Religion
Message-ID: <872@toaster.SFSU.EDU>
Date: 27 Sep 90 05:49:44 GMT
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In article <Fz09a-a2@cs.psu.edu> melling@cs.psu.edu
	(Michael D Mellinger) writes:
>How about Digital Audio Tape?  They're about to hit the music
>industry.  They should drop in price after a few million DAT cassettes
>of Van Halen are sold.  Each tape holds about a gigabyte of data.  I
>would say that they will be the perfect medium for software
>distribution in another year.

Our Digital Audio expert says that there's this one little
problem with DAT--the head assembly is only good for 1000 hours
of use, and costs $400 to replace (mind you that retail on a new
consumer DAT machine is around $700).  I think we'll stick with
our 8mm Exabytes for a while, thank you.

					-=EPS=-