Last week's haul & some questions

From: Dave McGuire <mcguire_at_neurotica.com>
Date: Tue Aug 15 16:15:57 2000

On August 15, Mzthompson_at_aol.com wrote:
> The two drives in question are indeed 8mm, but only support the 8200
> format. Can anybody enlighten me on that, who used that format, etc.

  That means "the format used by the Exabyte 8200 8mm drive". Lots of
things used (and still use) those drives...just about every computer
company in existence used Exabyte drives at one time or another over
the past ten years. They're standard SCSI and fast enough to be
quite useful...if you don't sell 'em to that guy, they're nice
drives for running backups. 2.3gb per tape, and very
well-understood by the world at large.

  I can't imagine that the other guy is having problems finding them,
though...they're all over the place.

          -Dave McGuire
Received on Tue Aug 15 2000 - 16:15:57 BST