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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!newspump.sol.net!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news-feed.iguide.com!delphi.com!usenet From: Jim Nelson <smartsignal@delphi.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: whats a good external SCSI tape? Date: Thu, 31 Oct 96 09:10:38 -0500 Organization: Delphi (info@delphi.com email, 800-695-4005 voice) Lines: 13 Message-ID: <BZOzHFO.smartsignal@delphi.com> References: <DzHp5B.6Bt.G.nanguo@nanguo.chalmers.com.au> <54dhae$3gs@uriah.heep.sax.de> <54j67v$soq@newsbr.eunet.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: bos1d.delphi.com X-To: Frederic MARAND <Frederic.Marand@osinet.fr> Frederic MARAND <Frederic.Marand@osinet.fr> writes: >It seems many people dislike helical scan backup units, but I never >could figure out why: we've sold tons of them, even to customers - Doubtless a fear of the misunderstood. Helical scan has been used successfully for forty years to handle video and data recording. Maybe it just sounds scary! Wonder how nervous the anecdote driven would get if they really knew how DRAM worked? Imagine all those precious bit patterns nestled in a matrix of myriads of tiny capacitors - Egads! You mean my data has a time constant! If some thing called refresh doesn't happen my bits do what??? Pass transistors? Huh? Oh well, back to work.