🚀 go-pugleaf

The Aug 87 issue of MacWorld reviewed tape backup units, and reported
that almost all the 3rd party units, including the General Computer
Hypertape unit, "will be Apple compatible".  They futhermore reported
that the General Computer software has all kinds of nifty features,
including timed scripts, backups by date of modification, etc.
The same claims were made in advertisements by G.C.

Well, this is not the case.  The current backup software distributed
with Hypertape is very crude, and does not even do incremental backups
correctly.  The "backup" program bombs about half the time when
backing up 600 or so files (25 MB).  Copying individual files using
the finder is reliable, but takes about 1 hour to copy 10 MB.  G.C.
claims that a new version will be out, but gives no date.  I recently
talked directly to tech support at G.C. (no easy feat!), and they said
that G.C. does *not ever* intend to make their tape format compatible
with the Apple tape backup, and furthermore, does *not* intend to
support AU/X.  Since AU/X will be distributed on tape, this is a big
disappointment!

Since the price is about the same as the Apple unit, there doesn't
seem to be any good reason to buy it.