Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!decwrl!decvax!tektronix!sequent!mntgfx!tomc
From: tomc@mntgfx.mentor.com (Tom Carstensen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Why are Tape Backup Units Outragously Priced?
Keywords: tape backup
Message-ID: <1988May11.153523.726@mntgfx.mentor.com>
Date: 11 May 88 22:35:19 GMT
Organization: Mentor Graphics Corporation, Beaverton Oregon
Lines: 18

Why are tape backup units SO expensive.  You can
buy a DECENT VCR for around $300, why should
tape backup systems be any different?  Even
extra-fancy VCR's are around $600.  

Why can't there be a simple, cheap, tape-backup
unit - even if it has to be slow or lacking in
features???

:------------------------------------------------------------:
: Tom Carstensen         Usenet: tomc@mntgfx.MENTOR.COM      :
: Mentor Graphics                Delphi: CARSTENSEN          :
:                                GEnie:  CARSTENSEN          :
:                                                            :
:  . . . I don't wan't to start any blasphamous rumours, but :
:  I think that God's got a sick sense of humour and when I  :
:  die, I expect to find him laughing.                       :
:                                       - Depeche Mode       :
:------------------------------------------------------------: