[Info-vax] OT: Has Ask Slashdot reached a hilarious new low-point?

[Mazzini Alessandro]

"Paul Sture" <paul.nospam at sture.ch> ha scritto nel messaggio 
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> On Mon, 13 Aug 2012 14:22:59 +0200, Mazzini Alessandro wrote:
>
>> Drive aside :
>>
>> (cost for a 3TB normal hd + cheap usb3 / esata box )  -  cost for a
>> single lto-5 tape +
>> number of total rewrites of the disk vs limited rewrites of the tape.
>>
>> If it's purely to move data around because it's quicker than using a
>> wan, the hd would likely win as operating cost, imo
>>
>> Anyway I remember that a lot of years ago, middle 90' at most, there was
>> some program to use a dat as a device to be accessed as an hd. I should
>> likely still have it somewhere...
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DECtape
>
> But if you ever used DECtape in its TU58 incarnation, you will know how
> painfully slow it could be.
>
> P.S. You are top posting.  The convention in this news group is to use
> bottom posting.
>
> -- 
> Paul Sture


ah hops... I'm lazy posting actually ( a new "email" starts from the top ) 
:P

No, not DECtape.. it was a "thing" for the x86 of the time. I don't remember 
if I tried it out of curiosity, or not. If I remember right there was 
another sw to turn the dat into an audio dat, for multi track recording... 
but , may be wrong, I "think" it required possibly a dat with sgi firmware.