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Article #865Re: DEC to go with 4mm DAT technology ...
From: Dirk Grunwald
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 1989 18:27
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 1989 18:27
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from my understanding, the advantage of 4mm DAT drives is faster and more precise seeking. Allegedly, you can use one like an old DECtape, and read/write explicit blocks. allegedly 8mm drives, like exebyte, have startup/stopdown times that make fore more difficult block-by-block operation. I don't know how much of this is BS from bad trade rags, but it's what I heard. Dirk Grunwald -- Univ. of Colorado at Boulder (grunwald@foobar.colorado.edu)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ncar!boulder!grunwald From: grunwald@foobar.colorado.edu (Dirk Grunwald) Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec Subject: Re: DEC to go with 4mm DAT technology ... Message-ID: <13820@boulder.Colorado.EDU> Date: 13 Nov 89 18:27:40 GMT References: <12646@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> <4413@itivax.iti.org> Sender: news@boulder.Colorado.EDU Reply-To: grunwald@foobar.colorado.edu Distribution: usa Organization: University of Colorado at Boulder Lines: 12 In-reply-to: scs@itivax.iti.org's message of 13 Nov 89 16:07:48 GMT