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From: bazyar@ernie (Jawaid Bazyar)
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Subject: Re: DAT storage Devices
Message-ID: <1991Jan24.213700.7691@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 24 Jan 91 21:37:00 GMT
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In article <1991Jan24.193805.6700@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> yk4@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Yong Su Kim) writes:
>They already have DAT storage devices for other computers.  For
>example, you can get DAT backup devices for Sun workstations.  They
>have been around for quite some time.

  Since DAT is likely to never catch on because of the crap that Congress
had to go through because of the record industry, I doubt it will ever
be cost effective for computer backup.  However, the Sun at my lab has
a Sony Video-8 backup system.  They've put five backups onto ONE tape.
A total of about 2.5GIGAbytes.  Only good for streaming backup, but then
it would make backups a snap! 

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