mailnews@allegra.UUCP (Henry Kautz's mailnews program) (12/15/87)
The Aug 87 issue of MacWorld reviewed tape backup units, and reported that almost all the 3rd party units, including the General Computer Hypertape unit, "will be Apple compatible". They futhermore reported that the General Computer software has all kinds of nifty features, including timed scripts, backups by date of modification, etc. The same claims were made in advertisements by G.C. Well, this is not the case. The current backup software distributed with Hypertape is very crude, and does not even do incremental backups correctly. The "backup" program bombs about half the time when backing up 600 or so files (25 MB). Copying individual files using the finder is reliable, but takes about 1 hour to copy 10 MB. G.C. claims that a new version will be out, but gives no date. I recently talked directly to tech support at G.C. (no easy feat!), and they said that G.C. does *not ever* intend to make their tape format compatible with the Apple tape backup, and furthermore, does *not* intend to support AU/X. Since AU/X will be distributed on tape, this is a big disappointment! Since the price is about the same as the Apple unit, there doesn't seem to be any good reason to buy it.
bayes@hpfcrj.HP.COM (Scott Bayes) (12/16/87)
Prediction for the next buzzword to replace _Turbo_. The prefix _Hyper_ will become even more common than was _Turbo_. Bets? Scott Bayes hyper@turbo :-)