tape backup rentals

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1 total messages Started by Diane Schulkowski Thu, 21 Jan 1993 16:49

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Author: Diane Schulkowski
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 16:49

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I would like to rent a large tape backup device, a SCSI 525M system for  
instance, but I haven't found any computer rental companies that rent  
them.

I don't want to buy one, because they are somewhere around $2K.  Also, I  
really just want to backup the applications, NeXTStep, etc. (not user  
data) on my drive.  The idea is that I backup the system now, and if I  
lose everything on my hard drive, I can recover with another rental.

It seems to me that there may be a market for this.  I wonder just how  
many people would be interested in renting a unit like this for, say $70 a  
day.  Probably two people could split this cost and each backup their  
systems in one day.  At this rate, it would take around 30 rentals to  
recover the full amount of the backup device.

Send me some email if you think this is a good idea, and also if you might  
be interested in renting one as well (Chicago area only).

Diane
schulkow@rtsg.mot.com

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