>A foolish remark. The change and added "nothing" as you called it was
>the TK50 media was formatted (init'ed) and verified at the higher bit
>density. It was also marked differently so these with TK70 and TK50s in
>their sites would know them apart (and DEC would in their stockrooms too).
The init'ing and verifying can add a LOT to the price of the tapes. Around
'95-96 I was responsible for a wierd Sun-based system that used a VCR like
device for backups. The tapes were just like Video Tapes, but cost about
$80 a pop, instead of about $2 for plain video tapes. The difference was
they were data grade tapes that had been verified to be error free.
Zane
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Received on Sat Oct 23 1999 - 18:54:56 BST