[comp.sys.apollo] 8mm tape drives

roberts@edsews.eds.com (Ted Roberts) (01/15/91)

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Apollo sys admins,

We need some recommendations about a particular 8mm tape drive for our
Apollo DN3500's.  If you have any experience with Cybernetics and their
8mm tape drives, please let us know how the machine and service has worked
for you.  Is the data-compression option worth buying?  Can you really get
10 Gb per 8mm tape?  What`s the read/write response time like?

My apologies if this has been discussed before.  We are not receiving news
feeds just yet.  Please reply directly to runyan@c4west.eds.com .

thanks
David Runyan
EDS, C4 Technology West
(206) 562-4560
runyan@c4west.eds.com

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