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- Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
- Subject: Re: Colorado Systems - Conversation
- Path: sparky!uunet!think.com!unixland!rmkhome!rmk
- From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
- Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 17:04:40 GMT
- Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
- Message-ID: <9212171204.42@rmkhome.UUCP>
- References: <1992Dec7.200530.4245@esseye.si.com> <9212135421@drktowr.chi.il.us> <1992Dec14.175700.22691@netcom.com> <9212151348.23@rmkhome.UUCP> <1992Dec16.225045.1285@netcom.com>
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- In article <1992Dec16.225045.1285@netcom.com> messina@netcom.com (Tony Porczyk) writes:
- >rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) writes:
- >
- >>In article <1992Dec14.175700.22691@netcom.com> messina@netcom.com (Tony Porczyk) writes:
- >
- >>>That's a noble intention. Just show me a tape drive first that's as
- >>>inexpensive as Colorado and as proven as Colorado.
- >>>I think we should try to convince them first.
- >>
- >>The real answer is SCSI tape.
- >>Tape drives that connect to floppy controllers suck.
- >
- >Agreed. That still doesn't answer my question, though. Have you compared
- >the prices for SCSI tapes vs. floppy tapes lately? Also, for many small
- >businesses floppy tape solutions are more than sufficient (if a bit slow).
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- I know a lot of people who've had problems with reliability using floppy
- tapes. I don't trust them.
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- Rick Kelly rmk@rmkhome.UUCP unixland!rmkhome!rmk rmk@frog.UUCP
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