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From: fc@lexicon.com (Frank Cunningham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: New stuff, DAT decks, 8mm Video
Message-ID: <399@lexicon.com>
Date: 30 Mar 89 14:30:49 GMT
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Organization: Lexicon, Inc., Waltham, MA
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In-reply-to: king@dretor.dciem.dnd.ca's message of 28 Mar 89 19:00:38 GMT

All I want is a SCSI streamer small enough to fit in the A2000 df1:
hole. Is this too much too ask ?

DAT: I thought HP and SONY were working on real digital storage for
computers using the same transport mechanisms, not warmed over audio
machines-- a good streamer needs read after write-- most audio
machines don't do that.

8mm: The audio on the consumer video machines is 8-bit companded PCM,
I think. It sounds almost as good as 16-bit PCM because the ear
forgives some transgressions. Do you people really want to go to the
trouble of converting data to audio to data to write on these things,
or am I missing something ?

EXAbyte Corp makes a SCSI controlled full-height 5" form factor
streaming drive using 8mm cassettes. We use it here to back up digital
audio data in our OPUS workstation. It seems to work.
-- 
Frank C