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guru@deltanet.com  (Bill Schultz) writes:

>In <samc-0704951141560001@ip-pdx6-15.teleport.com>, samc@teleport.com (Sam Churchill) writes:

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>>Hughes has another satellite platform for 1.5M 2-WAY data transmission
>>using 3 foot dishes. It could put pressure on the phone companies, too. A
>>satellite backbone broadcasts to millions, simultaneously, without
>>overhead. 
>>
>>I really like this concept. Can anyone think of a more cost/effective
>>delivery mechanism?

>Not off the top of my head.  I like it too. :-)

>Also, I was scanning the ads yesterday, and I saw a local computer store
>advertising a CD-ROM maker for under $2,000.  That (finally) makes CD-ROM
>practical as a backup medium.  It also gives the end user a practical place to
>put all that data that could come flying down such a pipe.

Haven't been following this debate, but bear in mind that CD's are write once
and so the cost of the media must be taken into consideration.  The price of 
the mastering system may well be in line with DAT, Exabyte etc drives.  But
if you use (for example) 1 CD a day, at a rough price of $A15 a CD (that's the
price I have seen).  You are looking at $A5475 a year for media.

Now do you still think that CD is an effective backup media?

NB: $A1 approx = $US0.70

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