Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ucbvax!pro-citadel.cts.COM!fredc From: fredc@pro-citadel.cts.COM (Fred Condo) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: DOS3.3/ProDOS; hard drives Message-ID: <8806240436.AA10704@crash.cts.com> Date: 23 Jun 88 18:17:31 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: pnet01!pro-simasd!pro-nsfmat!pro-la!pro-citadel!fredc@nosc.mil Organization: The Internet Lines: 23 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 //. ==Fred Condo = SysAdmin of Pro-Citadel = 818/339-4704 | Secular humanism: UUCP: crash!pnet01!pro-nsfmat!pro-la!pro-citadel!fredc | it stands to reason. INET: fredc@pro-citadel.cts.com || Paper: PO Box 3812, San Dimas, CA 91773