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From: fredc@pro-citadel.cts.COM (Fred Condo)
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Subject: Re: DOS3.3/ProDOS; hard drives
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Date: 23 Jun 88 18:17:31 GMT
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sewall@uconnvm.bitnet (Murphy A Sewall) writes:

>Start-stop tape drives aren't new either, but have you  priced one?
>Shoot three years ago when I started asking vendors at trade shows about
>a 1600 bpi 9trk drive capable of dealing with 2400 foot reels, they
>all looked at me like I'd just arrived from the outer planets.  Doesn't
>seem so silly any more does it?  Still, it will be nice when someone
>manufactures in sufficient quantity to get the price down to less that
>that of a Toyota :-)

I think you've been hanging around mainframes too long, Murphy :-). I
regularly back up our Mac drives using a nifty start-stop tape drive from CMS.
It uses 60-MB TEAC tapes that come in a slightly modified cassette shell
(looks just like an audiocassette). The whole thing sells for about $800,
substantially less than any Toyota. Tapes are about $20 apiece, and you can do
both global and incremental file-by-file backups and restores. It also allows
mirror backups, but why do that? It's actually slower than file-by-file....

No, I don't know if it works on an Apple //.


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