On 5/6/2006 at 10:03 PM Roy J. Tellason wrote:
I believe that the guy mentioned "20GB" in
our conversations. What sort
of
tapes would that things use?
Your basic 112m 8mm "D8" data storage tape. Sony QG-112M, Imation D8-112,
any number of brands. Or try an 8mm videocam tape. My 2-8 GB figure was
based on when Exabyte first came out with these things (I've got one
complete with an LCD display that tells how much tape is remaining!).
Later revisions bumped the capacity. The commercial-grade Exabyte stuff
wasn't bad, but the cost-reduced mass-market retail stuff was pure garbage.
Better than DAT, not as good as DLT, IMOHO.
Cheers,
Chuck