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To: flickerful who wrote (3525)	9/29/1998 1:16:00 PM
From: Scott Pedigo	Read Replies (2) of 17679

Incidentally, I talked to a salesman of a company providing backup solutions while visiting the Orbit trade show in Basel, Switzerland. He had some tape library systems on display which caught my eye: maybe 12" to 18" on a side, with a dozen or more 1/4" tapes, each holding 20 GB uncompressed, ~40 compressed, for a total capacity of several hundred GB. For about $8000. Not bad. I asked him about Ampex systems and he was familiar with them. He said that DRS, the Swiss TV station, had a couple of them. He described the size of the cassettes to me: about the size of a full-sized laptop computer! Since we often talk about the Ampex tape systems with respect to hopefully gaining a broader market, I thought that maybe people would like to be able to visualize just how big the tapes are. We're not talking about something like regular video cassettes.

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