On Saturday 06 May 2006 09:44 pm, Don Y wrote:
- A tape drive (?) marked "Exabyte
Corporation" and "Model HH CTS", I
probabl have more than one of these. Pushing open the tape door shows a
head in there that bears a slight resemblance to a video head, but
smaller.
Most likely an 8 mm drive (since this is what Exabyte specialized in).
The connection's SCSI and pretty standard. You can use 8 mm videocam
carts in these (in spite of what Exabyte said). Capacity ranged from 2-8
GB, depending on model.
I have a 20GB (40GB compressed) Exabyte here. Not sure how
true the "video tape" option is for higher densities... :-(
I believe that the guy mentioned "20GB" in our conversations. What sort of
tapes would that things use?
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ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can
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