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From: arane@me.utoronto.ca (Raphael Arane)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo,comp.sys.sgi
Subject: 8mm cassette tape
Message-ID: <1989Dec14.094152.10983@me.toronto.edu>
Date: 14 Dec 89 14:41:53 GMT
Organization: University of Toronto
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Apollo has the 8mm cassette backup tape with 2.3GB capacity.
What experience/knowledge netters have about this tape with respect to:

- Reliability
- Cost of cassettes
- Availability of cassettes
- Popularity, esp. among workstations; do Sun, SGI have them?
- Do you think this might become an industry standard
  as the 1/4 inch cartridge tape did?
- Anything else that deems relevant

I'll try to summarize and post the responses that will be e-mailed
directly to me.

Thanks,
            ,
-- Rafi Arane
   arane@me.utoronto.ca            Tel (416) 749-0880
   arane@me.toronto.edu            Fax (416) 749-9669