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- From: schulkow@tophat2 (Diane Schulkowski)
- Subject: tape backup rentals
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.164933.22598@rtsg.mot.com>
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- Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 16:49:33 GMT
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- I would like to rent a large tape backup device, a SCSI 525M system for
- instance, but I haven't found any computer rental companies that rent
- them.
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- I don't want to buy one, because they are somewhere around $2K. Also, I
- really just want to backup the applications, NeXTStep, etc. (not user
- data) on my drive. The idea is that I backup the system now, and if I
- lose everything on my hard drive, I can recover with another rental.
-
- It seems to me that there may be a market for this. I wonder just how
- many people would be interested in renting a unit like this for, say $70 a
- day. Probably two people could split this cost and each backup their
- systems in one day. At this rate, it would take around 30 rentals to
- recover the full amount of the backup device.
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- Send me some email if you think this is a good idea, and also if you might
- be interested in renting one as well (Chicago area only).
-
- Diane
- schulkow@rtsg.mot.com
-