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- From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
- Subject: Re: Will Dell load off a Wangdat DAT?
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- Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 20:03:48 GMT
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- In article <2B35DCC4.64AB@telly.on.ca> evan@telly.on.ca (Evan Leibovitch) writes:
- >
- >After all, I don't think that the Dell distribution, even with all its
- >bells and whistles, would fill a 1.2GB uncompressed DAT tape. So why
- >bother with the compression?
-
- I can't answer why, but I did speak with a Dell representative a few
- months back about the DAT distribution and specifically asked which
- of their drives would be required to load it. They said that it
- needed the higher capacity drive, so I assume that it is in the
- compressed format. It seems to be really difficult to get information
- about the unix products from Dell. I recently sent some email to
- support@dell.com requesting some prices and got a quick notification
- that it was being refered to sales, but no follow-up. Has anyone
- had better luck?
-
- Les Mikesell
- les@chinet.chi.il.us
-