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- From: hoang@super.org (Dzung T. Hoang)
- Subject: Re: Floppy Backup, Re: 32bit Shareware backup program.
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.154817.8576@super.org>
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- Organization: Supercomputing Research Center (Bowie, MD)
- References: <1992Jul20.131435.5815@relay.nswc.navy.mil> <rick.6.711671081@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu> <1992Jul21.054001.11676@cco.caltech.edu>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 15:48:17 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul21.054001.11676@cco.caltech.edu> hacker@cco.caltech.edu (Jonathan Bruce Hacker) writes:
- >
- [stuff about diskette prices deleted]
- >
- >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.
- >
- >--
- >Jon Hacker
- >Caltech, Pasadena CA
- >hacker@tumbler-ridge.caltech.edu
-
- A 120/250M tape drive costs $250. A 60/120M drive costs $200. This
- is less than a hard drive of comparable capacity, and less than many
- software packages such as spreadsheets, word processors, and CAD
- programs. There is no excuse for having tape as standard equipment,
- especially now that 200M hard drives are common. I have a 100MB hard
- drive and spent over 10 hours trying to back up about 70M of data onto
- 50 3.5" diskettes. (The backup program choked on a bad diskette and I
- had to start all over several times.) My next computer purchase is
- a tape drive. I'm just waiting for an inexpensive one that comes
- with software for OS/2.
- --
- | Dzung T. Hoang |
- | dth@cs.brown.edu, hoang@super.org |
- | Grad Student, Dept. of Computer Science |
- | Brown University, Providence, RI |
-