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Article #320Re: DAT tape availability: what's the deal???
From: Greg Stewart
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 1995 04:19
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 1995 04:19
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layer@Franz.COM (Kevin Layer) wrote: >Does someone out there know why DAT tapes, mostly the 120m variety, >are in short supply recently (last few months)? This, of course, has >caused the price to soar to $18/tape (I rememeber when I bought Sony >120m DAT tapes for around $12/tape), if you can find a supplier that >has them in stock. > As a supplier of many types of media, we have definitly come across this problem. Seems that the main Japanese manuf. of the 120m tapes was having problems keeping up with production schedules. Maxell and HP as well as others were greatly impacted. We are slowly getting 120 DATs in, check out our Web site for pricing and info. Greg Stewart optimag@magpage.com http://www.magpage.com/optimag/
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