boerner@ut-emx.UUCP (Brendan B. Boerner) (05/30/89)
A while back I read something about a "jukebox" device which contained optical disks and could be expanded to something like 50 gigabytes. If anyone could email me the name/phone number of the manufacturer, it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Brendan ------------------ Brendan B. Boerner Phone: 512/471-3241 Microcomputer Services The University of Texas @ Austin Internet: boerner@emx.utexas.edu UUCP: ...!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!boerner BITNET: CCGB001@UTXVM.BITNET
madd@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Jim Frost) (06/02/89)
In article <13525@ut-emx.UUCP> boerner@ut-emx.UUCP (Brendan B. Boerner) writes: |A while back I read something about a "jukebox" device which |contained optical disks and could be expanded to something like 50 |gigabytes. If anyone could email me the name/phone number of the |manufacturer, it would be greatly appreciated. The only one I know of is Epoch's Infinite Storage Device, which is a combination RAMdisk, winchester, and optical jukebox. It supports from 1Gb to something like 155Gb. A system which supports 50Gb is about $185,000. While I don't know the phone number off hand, I can find it if you're really interested. It's not all that useful to PC's anyway since it acts as an NFS server, and a PC with NFS is pretty useless (Sun's PC/NFS leaves about 300k free on a 640k machine, in my experience). jim frost software tool & die madd@bu-it.bu.edu