[rescue] Re: Re: Quick EXB-210 questions

[Michael S. Schiller]

James:

You bring up a good point! Just the other day I was trying to explain to my 14
year old daughter what 'records' and 'albums' are! All she knows about are CDs
and tapes.

On the subject of tape reliability, I have a 150mb tape drive that I've had for
about 10 years, currently its installed in my SC2000 but I originally got it
with an Amiga A3000UX, and I even have a couple of tapes from back then that
are still holding their data. I had a version of tar for AmigaDOS, and he Sun
version of tar (and gnutar) can both read the tape.

I've got both an exb8500 and 8505xl in my SC2000, anyone know of anything the
8500 can do/read that the 8505xl can't? I want to replace the 8500 with a 4mm
autoloader, it makes more sense to have that and the 8505 than just 2 8mm units
in the machine.

-Mike

James Lockwood wrote:

> I don't trust truly "I couldn't live without this" data to any form of
> magnetic media.  Anything truly important goes onto Kodak Tech Pan, and a
> copy goes into my safety deposit box.
>
> Why?  Microfilm is in a truly unambiguous and easy to interpret format.
> Even after a nuclear holocaust, I could access it using nothing more than
> a bright light source and relatively simple optics.  Silver emulsions are
> known to have a century+ lifetime if properly stored.  Will I be able to
> find a DLT drive in 10 years?  Certainly.  50 years?  Probably, though
> they will be expensive and rare.  If my grandchildren find a stack of my
> tapes up in my attic in a century the effort to simply determine the
> archive format would probably run in the thousands of dollars.
>
> -James [a roll of 120 Tech Pan can hold nearly 7GB "unformatted"]
>
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-Mike
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