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From: lazlo@ariel.unm.edu (Lazlo Nibble)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: HD backing the NEW way?
Message-ID: <1186@ariel.unm.edu>
Date: 25 Dec 89 19:46:27 GMT
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S680534@UWEC.BITNET (ROBERT TANNER) writes:

> I was wondering if anyone has see or heard of AI new videotape recorder
> based backup system for hard-drives?  A siz hour tape will store some
> 640 megs at a rate of 40 megs per hour.  Anything out there on it? Like
> price? Availibility?  The ad for it is in A+/inCider (Jan edition) page 19.
> Thanks.

This is ancient stuff already . . . there's a backup system out there
that my friends use at work on their network of Suns and HPs that
stores up to two gigs (that's GIGs, not megs) on a standard 8mm
videotape.  Simple little box.

Of course, if the one you're talking about is way-cheap then that's
obviously a nice alternative for the consumer market.  But it's not
edge-tech.

                                                   Lazlo (lazlo@ariel.unm.edu)
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