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From: kamath@reed.UUCP (Sean Kamath)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Tapes, Apple Archives
Keywords: tapes, gs/os, anonymous ftp
Message-ID: <11839@reed.UUCP>
Date: 20 Feb 89 02:31:22 GMT
References: <1281@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
Reply-To: kamath@reed.UUCP (Sean Kamath)
Organization: Reed College, Portland OR
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In article <1281@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> asd@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Kareth) writes:
>
>Some quick questions:
>
>2) Does anybody know of any companies that sell/make/etc 9-track tape drives
>   for the Apple (gs specifically)?  Specifically, I'm interested in finding
>   a company that makes a tape drive I can use with the gs (with gsos if
>   possible), handles 6250 bpi, and if it can do/comes with a tar program
>   that'd be perfect.  I'm interested in this in order to be able to transfer
>   stuff from the UNIX machines here to my computer with as much ease as
>   possible and a lot of stuff at that.  Also with companies such as Rodime
>   making 140Meg drives for $1300, a nice 9-track tape drive shud be able to
>   handle backups also (lot easier than umpteen hundred 3.5 disks).

6250 bpi?  Last I heard, they were going in excess of $50,000.  On the
otherhand, for $3000, you can get exabyte, which is 8mm video tape which
hold about 2.2 gigabytes of data.  The tapes cost $8, vs. $15 for a mag
tape.

seems to me a little odd to want to shell out gob's o cash to get stuff
from your unix machines.  But, hey, if you got a *lot* of stuff to move...


Sean Kamath

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