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- From: hacker@cco.caltech.edu (Jonathan Bruce Hacker)
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- Subject: Re: Floppy Backup, Re: 32bit Shareware backup program.
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- Date: 21 Jul 92 05:40:01 GMT
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- rick@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu (Richard M. Warner) writes:
-
- >Ahem ... Diskettes are not 'relatively inexpensive' - esp. when you look
- >at them relative to tape. For example, the cheapest one can find DS/HD
- >3-1/2" diskettes around here right now is about $1 per diskette. Thats
- >$1 for 1.44 Mb of storage space, or $.70/Mb. QIC-40 tapes are running
- >about $15, for 40 Mb of storage (uncompressed) or $.38/Mb. QIC-24 tapes
- >are $15 each for 60 Mb of storage (uncompressed), or $.25/Mb, and QIC-150
- >are about $20 for 150 Mb of storage, or $.13/Mb. At that rate, those
- >floppies get darned expensive. And they take a lot more space to store,
- >also!
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-
- While the above data is correct, it neglects to include the cost of
- the tape drive itself, which many people, myself included, would have
- to buy to store anything on tape. Floppy drives, on the other hand,
- are standard equipment on every PC I've ever seen. I think that is
- the point others have been making in this thread.
-
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- Jon Hacker
- Caltech, Pasadena CA
- hacker@tumbler-ridge.caltech.edu
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