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From: madd@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Jim Frost)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: BIG optical storage unit info wanted
Message-ID: <32152@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Date: 2 Jun 89 02:16:09 GMT
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In article <13525@ut-emx.UUCP> boerner@ut-emx.UUCP (Brendan B. Boerner) writes:
|A while back I read something about a "jukebox" device which
|contained optical disks and could be expanded to something like 50
|gigabytes.  If anyone could email me the name/phone number of the
|manufacturer, it would be greatly appreciated.

The only one I know of is Epoch's Infinite Storage Device, which is a
combination RAMdisk, winchester, and optical jukebox.  It supports
from 1Gb to something like 155Gb.  A system which supports 50Gb is
about $185,000.

While I don't know the phone number off hand, I can find it if you're
really interested.  It's not all that useful to PC's anyway since it
acts as an NFS server, and a PC with NFS is pretty useless (Sun's
PC/NFS leaves about 300k free on a 640k machine, in my experience).

jim frost
software tool & die
madd@bu-it.bu.edu