Subj : Re: BBSes with interesting files collections
To   : Spectre
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Mon Oct 30 2023 07:36:00

-=> Spectre wrote to Adept <=-

 Sp> Most of the drives were only 40, 60, 80s with a 120 and I can't recall
 Sp> what else now... it came out to ~5-600Mb at the time... even the tape
 Sp> was getting light on by that stage, it was only a 40 as well. I think
 Sp> as a serious backup medium floppies were shot after ~40Mb turns into a
 Sp> lot of floppies really quickly after that.

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

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



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