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Re: Archiving disks to tape? (late 1970s)

Subject: Re: Archiving disks to tape? (late 1970s)
From: "Simon D. Williams" <bb065@chebucto.ns.ca>
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 00:39:26 -0300
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On Wed, 24 Oct 2007, schmidtd wrote:

Come to think of it, why would it have been useful in the day anyway?

Backing up half a dozen floppies on a $2 tape was probably a bargain backthen... I seem to think that 5.25" floppies were about $5 apiece, so itwould definitely be an economically sound practise.

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References:
- Archiving disks to tape? (late 1970s)
  - From: Linards Ticmanis <ticmanis@gmx.de>
- Re: Archiving disks to tape? (late 1970s)
  - From: Patrick Schaefer <PSchaefer@lycosxxl.de>
- Re: Archiving disks to tape? (late 1970s)
  - From: schmidtd <schmidtd@my-deja.com>

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