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Article #12027Re: New stuff, DAT decks, 8mm Video
From: Frank Cunningham
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 1989 14:30
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 1989 14:30
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All I want is a SCSI streamer small enough to fit in the A2000 df1: hole. Is this too much too ask ? DAT: I thought HP and SONY were working on real digital storage for computers using the same transport mechanisms, not warmed over audio machines-- a good streamer needs read after write-- most audio machines don't do that. 8mm: The audio on the consumer video machines is 8-bit companded PCM, I think. It sounds almost as good as 16-bit PCM because the ear forgives some transgressions. Do you people really want to go to the trouble of converting data to audio to data to write on these things, or am I missing something ? EXAbyte Corp makes a SCSI controlled full-height 5" form factor streaming drive using 8mm cassettes. We use it here to back up digital audio data in our OPUS workstation. It seems to work. -- Frank C
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!utstat!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!blake!ogccse!husc6!spdcc!lexicon!fc From: fc@lexicon.com (Frank Cunningham) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: New stuff, DAT decks, 8mm Video Message-ID: <399@lexicon.com> Date: 30 Mar 89 14:30:49 GMT References: <2017.AA2017@panchax> <1606@dretor.dciem.dnd.ca> Organization: Lexicon, Inc., Waltham, MA Lines: 19 In-reply-to: king@dretor.dciem.dnd.ca's message of 28 Mar 89 19:00:38 GMT