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anthony@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu (Lawrence Anthony) writes:

>a brief news item in the current issue of DEC Professional
>(Vol 8, No 12 (Nov 1989) p 18) claims that DEC has plans
>to offer "a 4mm solution" for backup devices.  does anybody
>have any news/rumors on the recording format that DEC will
>employ (HP/Sony, Gigatrend, or some proprietary DEC format)
>and when such a device would be available?

I dunno about rumors, but it really honks me off that DEC will not
pursue 8mm technology.  There are very few disks in the world that
one cannot back up on a single 8mm tape, while even Dec (;-)) has
drives too large for a 4mm.  Exabyte is announcing a larger capacity
second-generation drive as we speak, while 4mm is brand-new technology.
Most of our cost of backups is operator time.  4mm buys us nothing,
flat, zippo.  Feh.

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