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From: ems@apple.UUCP (Mike Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs
Subject: Re: WORM drives
Message-ID: <1325@apple.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 14-Jul-87 22:06:54 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 14 22:06:54 1987
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Summary: can you say backups?

In article <35f03059.d5c4@apollo.uucp>, tbg@apollo.uucp (Tom Gross) writes:
> 
>     I would be curious to know what applications people are
>     contemplating for WORM drives.

We would like to use them for backups.  We have a present need to do backups
on about 16 Gigabytes of disk.  This is expected to grow rapidly in the 
future.  Storing all those nine track tapes is a real pain.
-- 

E. Michael Smith  ...!sun!apple!ems

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