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From: bright@dataio.UUCP (Walter Bright)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: Experiences with Tape Backup for IBM-PC?
Message-ID: <793@dataio.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 30-Aug-85 13:25:54 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 30 13:25:54 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 2-Sep-85 03:39:36 EDT
Reply-To: bright@dataio.UUCP (Walter Bright
Organization: Data I/O Corp., Redmond WA
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Keywords: tape backup

In article <121@daisy.UUCP> david@daisy.UUCP (David Schachter) writes:
>"I'm interested in purchasing a tape backup unit for the IBM-PC.
>I would like to know if anyone has had any positive or negative
>experiences with particular devices on the market."

Don't buy an Alloy. I bought one and:

	o It is very noisy, with a high-pitched whine.

	o The software that comes with it is very buggy. The software
	  crashes if it doesn't have exactly 512kb of free memory, so
	  when I want to use it I have to reboot the system without
	  a ramdisk or installed programs. What a pain. Alloy has promised
	  me fixes, but they never send them to me.