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From: steve@ivucsb.UUCP (Steve Lemke <steve>)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: High capacity backup for LANs
Keywords: DAT, LANs, Backup, Novell
Message-ID: <324@ivucsb.UUCP>
Date: 15 Oct 88 03:43:46 GMT
References: <413@cont1.Dayton.NCR.COM>
Reply-To: steve@ivucsb.UUCP (Steve Lemke <steve>)
Organization: The Audio Club at UCSB, Isla Vista, California
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In article <413@cont1.Dayton.NCR.COM> glee@cont1.Dayton.NCR.COM (Gary Lee) writes:
<   I am looking for information on previously announced, but as yet unreleased
<Digital Audio Tape backup devices for PC's. I remember reading somewhere that
<HP and Sony were working on one together for a Q3 or Q4 1988 release. Ideally
<the drive will be certified for Novell Netware SFT 2.11 so it can back up all
<the special files and include software for automating the backup process. Any
<information on DAT technology in PC's will be greatly appreciated.
<
<** So I am assuming it does not exist yet, therefor can anyone point me in the
<direction of other technology, products, or vendors which might offer similar
<capacity ( 1.2 gigabytes ) at a reasonable price ( Emerald and Maynard need
<not apply ). **

Well, I don't know of any specific manufacturers, but aren't 8mm Videotape
based backup units coming of age?  I know of one for the Macintosh, and I'm
sure that they exist for the PC (although I thought it _was_ Emerald).  Because
of the rotary head technology they're quite fast.  Also, maybe the Emerald unit
I was thinking of was a rotary head unit that used the DC-600 cartridges to
get somewhere around 1.2 gigs on a tape.

 
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