Subj : Re: BBSes with interesting files collections
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Spectre
Date : Tue Oct 31 2023 06:18 am

 pF> SCSI DDS tape drives were the way to go - we used them at work and
 pF> recycled tapes, so I could bring home old bulk-erased tapes. They'd
 pF> store 2gb and later 4GB, and with compression could go above that.

SCSI was hiddeously expensive and hard to find here.  DDS and DAT tapes were
certainly spacious enough though.  Mostly the Mac guys had SCSI stuff, it was
the only interface on your Mac of the time.

PC's here were still mostly MFM or IDE...

 pF> SCSI was a lot faster than the floppy interface. I always wondered why
 pF> ATA tape drives didn't become a thing - most ATA motherboards could
 pF> support 4 devices and most people had 2 (primary hard drive and an

That also was later... on the type of setup I was using you only had 2 drive
ISA interface cards. Not to many of them were even configurable, you just
used the two ports it gave you. You've got me wondering now if I ever saw ATA
tape storage though...nope even the 350s are still floppy..

Spec


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