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- From: jeff@claw.clearpoint.com (Jeffrey J. Griglack)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
- Subject: Re: Floppy Backup, Re: 32bit Shareware back
- Message-ID: <JEFF.92Jul21150244@claw.clearpoint.com>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 20:02:44 GMT
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- In-Reply-To: whiles@nswc.navy.mil's message of 21 Jul 92 14:18:20 GMT
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- I paid $45 for my Archive tape drive (used). It has worked fine for
- about a year, and the parent company is still in business. However,
- it is old technology, and they do not want to support it anymore.
- They are coming out with OS/2 drivers for their newer (DAT) drives.
- So you see that the stability of the company is not the only thing
- that determines the support.
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- If I had 10 386's, I would still only buy 1 tape drive. I would then
- buy 10 ethernet cards (about $100 per) and the software to run them.
- Then I would remotely access the machine with the tape drive.
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- I have a 200 Meg hard drive. The OS and other utilities take up about
- 60 Meg. The rest has to be backed up. I do not feel like pumping
- around 100 floppies into my machine every day. Of course I have not
- backed it up since I built OS/2 on it, and I do not like that
- situation either.
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- |Jeff Griglack |"Hey, you talking to me or are you just practicing|
- |jeff@claw.clearpoint.com | for one of those performances you do?" |
- |jeff@fang.clearpoint.com | -- Lori Anderson |
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