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- From: mike@meiko.com (Mike Stok)
- Subject: Re: How do you back up a terabyte?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.190252.9496@meiko.com>
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- References: <1992Dec16.161430.1109@cc.ic.ac.uk> <herman.724556613@phage> <1992Dec22.232752.10974@mole-end.matawan.nj.us>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 19:02:52 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec22.232752.10974@mole-end.matawan.nj.us> mat@mole-end.matawan.nj.us writes:
- >In article <herman.724556613@phage>, herman@nosc.mil (John W. Herman) writes:
- >> twl10@ccc.amdahl.com (Tom Littauer) writes:
- >
- >> >In article <1992Dec16.161430.1109@cc.ic.ac.uk> cmaae47@imperial.ac.uk writes:
- >> >>In article <ericw.724459057@hobbes>, ericw@hobbes.amd.com (Eric Wedaa) writes:
- >> >>- The subject says it all. "How do you back up a terabyte?"
- >
- >> Paper tape. There is a company which advertizes the ability to back up
- >> 1 terabyte to a paper tape real. Honest
- >
- >Someone check me--that would be about a 100 giga-inch reel, no? About
- >1.6 million miles of paper tape?
- >
- >I don't mean to suggest that this is ridiculous; perhaps that company
- >plans to start just _one_ such backup?
-
- Check out Digital Paper from ICI Dataproducts in the UK, I think there
- are a couple of Canadian companies selling Digital Paper based backup
- systems. I seem to remember it's a write once medium as flexible as
- tape but with phenomenal bit density, written & read with a laser.
-
- ... of course I could be wrong :-) ...
-
- Mike
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