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From: mark@calvin..westford.ccur.com (Mark Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: Amiga graphics to video (In n)
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Date: 7 Mar 91 14:20:54 GMT
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In article <4995@mindlink.UUCP> Gord_Wait@mindlink.UUCP (Gord Wait) writes:
>What about 8mm or dat tape drives?(Are they not yet supported on amigas?) Sure
>the 1/4 screaming tape drives are cheap, but the hi-density tapes cost well
>over $50.00 last time I bought some. Our Sun network where I work has an
>Exabyte scsi 8mm tape backup, which cost about $3000-$4000 bucks, but you can
>put 2 gigabytes on a $6.00 tape that you buy at a video shop.

I believe I have heard of people using 8mm or dat tape drives on the Amiga,
but if it is supported, it is not very common. The reason I mentioned the
1/4" screaming tape was because it is relatively cheap and it is VERY
portable. 1/4" cartridge tape has to be one of the most common archive
formats around and would allow you to dump your data onto many many different
systems. This is really nice if you have to get an animation to a studio
or a LARGE image to a print services place.

The Exabytes are nice. Where I used to work we would back up our
entire Apollo CAD network on a single tape. However, they are not very
common and ofcourse moderately expensive.
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