[Coco] Sigh of relief, refresh your floppies!

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 27 March 2010, Steven Hirsch wrote:
>On Sat, 27 Mar 2010, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>> Avoid rotary head data drives (DAT and 8mm) like the plague.  I've had
>>> enormous problems with these over the years and I don't think I'm
>>> alone.
>>
>> Nope, you have lots of company in that little red wagon bound for he!!.
>
>s/hell/bitbucket/    ?
>
>It's reassuring to know I'm not the only one :-)  Interesting how a
>technology that worked so well for video acquired such a black-eye in the
>computer domain.  I'll guess that things were scaled down, dumbed down and
>cheapened to the point of unreliability, then "Muntzed" back until they
>just barely worked (a time-tested engineering process).
>
>Steve
>
A history buff I see. ;-)  Yeah I fought with a dds2 changer for a couple of 
years, wearing out 4 of them before I got schmardt.  Now I use vtapes on a 
terrabyte hard drive, very dependable in comparison to the dds2 tapes.  My 
data outgrew them anyway.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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