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From: mark@cygnet.CYGNETSYSTEMS (Mark Quattrocchi)
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Subject: Re: The NeXT Problem
Message-ID: <1096@cygnet.CYGNETSYSTEMS>
Date: 1 Nov 88 21:49:44 GMT
References: <26435@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <452@oracle.UUCP> <199@daitc.daitc.mil>
Reply-To: mark@cygnet.UUCP (Mark Quattrocchi)
Organization: Cygnet Systems -- Sunnyvale, California
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In article <199@daitc.daitc.mil> jkrueger@daitc.daitc.mil.UUCP (Jonathan Krueger) writes:
>In article <452@oracle.UUCP> csimmons@oracle.UUCP (Charles Simmons) writes:
>>Something to factor into your price performance picture:  I believe another
>>article pointed out that the optical drive was under $1500 dollars.  So,
>>for $1550, I get 256MB of disk storage.  For $1600 I get 512MB of disk
>>storage.  For $1700 I get 1 Gigabyte of disk storage.  Admittedly, my
>>seek time gets a little bit long (2 to 3 seconds) when I have to swap disks...
>
>Jukebox.  I hear a voice saying, "the NeXT jukebox...for when you need
>the NeXT disk".  I also hear a voice saying "backup" and also "our 400
>disk box stores 100 gigabytes."  Opens up whole new horizons in
>optimizing allocation of disk resources.  Such things exist today, but
>tend to be expensive and highly vendor-specific, and don't offer
>rewrite/erase capabilities as far as I know.
>
Jukebox... Did I hear the magic word? Cygnet, the leader in optical disk
jukeboxes does make them for both 5.25" and 12" drives. We support just
about any brand of drives that exists (if not now we will shortly). Our
5.25" jukebox will fit under a desk and holds 25-28 cartridges depending
on the drive type. The time to exchange cartridges is less than 4 seconds
(the worlds fastest). We even have software that allows multiple jukebox
management that runs under UNIX. So you too can have a NeXT jukebox, just
send all your money and 10 corn flake box tops to ... me :-)

Mark Quattrocchi