7 Apr
2010
7 Apr
'10
3:36 p.m.
On Apr 7, 2010, at 4:00 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
And the number of small companies using very old (but not
necessarily ancient by our standards) hardware like QIC-1000 tape
drives is a very LARGE portion of the overall computer-using community.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
I would also
suspect that the number of 'classic computers' run by
enthusiasts that use 8" (and even more so 5.25") flopplies vastly
exceeds the number that use QIC1000 tapes.
Maybe, but perhaps not "vastly" at this late date and age. Many
commercial customers probably maintain large libraries of tapes for
magazine-feed tape drives. Show the average guy on the street a
5.25" drive and he's likely to think it's a new type of DVD unit.
The number of classic computer enthusiasts is a very small portion of
the overall computer-using community.