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From: jgp@moscom.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.periphs,wny.unix-wizards
Subject: 2Gb tape cartridge
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Date: Sun, 15-Feb-87 22:33:35 EST
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Posted: Sun Feb 15 22:33:35 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 16-Feb-87 06:52:18 EST
Reply-To: jgp@moscom.UUCP (Jim Prescott)
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In the 2/87 issue of Mini-Micro Systems there is an ad from a company
called Exabyte announcing their new 8mm cartridge tape subsystems the
EXB-8200.  The remarkable part is the quoted storage capacity, "over
2,000 Mb".

It comes in a 5.25" full height box with an embedded SCSI controller.
The cartridges look slightly larger than a cassette tape.  $3500 Q1.

Does anyone know any more about these things?  Is this a spinoff on the
8mm video technology (helical scan?)?

At 15-20 times the capacity of current cartridge (or 9 track for that
matter) on a much more conveniently sized tape, this sounds too good
to be true.

Exabyte's phone number is (303)442-4333.  Sorry if this sounds like an
advertisement but I thought people would like to here about it.  I'm
in no way affiliated with Exabyte.
-- 
Jim Prescott	rochester!moscom!jgp