Posted by Alpha on 01/17/68 11:49

"Roy L. Fuchs" <roylfuchs@urfargingicehole.org> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 5 Jun 2006 20:52:23 -0500, "Jay G." <Jay@tmbg.org> Gave us:
>
>>Even in terms of PC storage, DAT has competition in the form of QIC,
>>Exabyte, DLT and LTO.
>
> DAT totally creamed QIC, as well as exabyte (which is only a brand,
> BTW).
>
> It had a 1GB capacity (or more) so it killed them there as well.
> Once it came out, it was the standard choice of IT pros that new what
> they were doing and had a budget to do it with.
>
> DAT backup softwares were typically in the $5k ballpark.

Nonsense. We used retrospect and it came in at around $200.

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