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I would like to have unattended operation of a backup server and
or a very large archive.  The media cost for either 8mm Exebyte
or 4mm (who? Sony? Cannon?) video cassette systems is very very
low.  I believe that the drives accept their cassettes through a
slot in the front of the box.  It would seem easy for someone to
make a carrousel or juke box to give say 30 second loading from 
a library of tens or hundreds of cassettes.  Does anyone make
such a device for sale at $5k or $10k.  I'm not much interested
in anything over $30k since I can't expect to be able to spend
that much.

The price per megabyte is much higher for any kind of optical or
magneto-optical disk media.  Still, the $0.20/megabyte cost for
the NeXT magneto-optical cartridges looks quite good (and half 
the cost of any competitor that I know of.  These are also front
loading like the cassettes and would seem susceptible to similar
kinds of juke box implementations.  Are there any??

Dick

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