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From: prc@maxim.ERBE.SE (Robert Claeson)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs
Subject: Re: 2 Gb cartridge tape drive
Summary: DAT drives for computers are available from Gigabyte Gmbh.
Message-ID: <435@maxim.ERBE.SE>
Date: 15 Dec 88 13:07:51 GMT
References: <2400029@kailand> <1180@fai.UUCP> <50451@pyramid.pyramid.com>
Organization: ERBE DATA AB
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In article <50451@pyramid.pyramid.com>, csg@pyramid.pyramid.com (Carl S. Gutekunst) writes:

> - Sony has been privately telling potential customers to wait for computer-
>   grade DAT drives. These have about half the storage of 8mm, run at about
>   the same speed. Supposedly both the media and the drives are more reliable
>   than 8mm.

I've got a brochure from Gigabyte Gmbh. in Germany, who claims to have
DAT drives that connects to computers via the SCSI interface. They store
1 GB per tape and will locate any file on the tape within 30 seconds.

The tapes are certainly handy -- about the size of a credit card.
-- 
Robert Claeson, ERBE DATA AB, P.O. Box 77, S-175 22 Jarfalla, Sweden

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