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- From: gord@jericho.uucp (Gord Wait)
- Subject: Re: How do you back up a terabyte?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.214207.12288@jericho.uucp>
- Organization: S-MOS Systems, Inc. (Vancouver Design Center)
- References: <herman.724556613@phage> <1992Dec22.232752.10974@mole-end.matawan.nj.us> <1992Dec23.190252.9496@meiko.com>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 21:42:07 GMT
- Lines: 51
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- In article <1992Dec23.190252.9496@meiko.com> mike@meiko.com (Mike Stok) writes:
- >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
- >--
- >The "usual disclaimers" apply. |
- >Mike Stok |
- >mike@meiko.com |
- >Meiko tel: (617) 890 7676 |
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- Not paper tape!! Optical tape. Call:
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- Creo Products Inc.
- 110 - 3700 Gilmore Way
- Vancouver B.C. Canada
- V5J 4M1
- (604) 437-6879
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- Contact Steven Hoy
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- Their system can store up to 4 terabytes to optical tape.
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