[Info-vax] TK50 - this is annoying...

[Richard B. Gilbert]

On 10/8/2012 6:09 PM, JF Mezei wrote:
> On 12-10-08 16:30, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>
>> The TK50 tape drive was a lot smaller and a lot cheaper though.
>
> The TK50 (which evolved into today's DLT) was office friendly compared
> to data centre magtapes.
>

I think that the data center mag tapes were both faster and more 
reliable.  The TK-50 was expensive, slow, and high maintenance!
It was, however, in most cases, more affordable than the same capacity 
reel-to-reel tape.

I hate all of them equally!