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On 28 Feb 2008 at 12:01, Sridhar Ayengar wrote: We were approached by Datasonix to endorse their Pereos drive. Apparently, one of their marketing people, in his eagerness to clinch a sale, had told a customer that we'd already approved it and sold them 150 of the things. After I went over the specs with their technical guy and told him that there was no way were were going to endorse a 2mm helical-scan drive without write verification and a driver that required more than 100K of memory, I got a pep talk from the CEO. He insisted on sending me a couple of the drives with full access to their engineering staff. I got one good backup out of the thing after many tries. After a week of wasting my time, I boxed the things up and sent them back. I think I still have the software, if anyone's looking for it. They're probably collector's items now--and likely in the "vintage" category. Tiny little tape drive that ran on AA batteries with postage-stamp-sized carts claiming to hold 1GB each. Cheers, Chuck