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There are no good solutions for this problem. As we live in an AS/400 centric world, we use *QIC as a lowest common denominator It's cheap, (generally) included with maintenance on the CPU and works everywhere. My next two nominees are not cheap: The most universal is reel-to-reel, but I trip over my dinosaur everything I think about it. Maintenance is very expensive. 3480 compatibility is the next most common. 8mm is falling out of favor quickly. Al Al Barsa, Jr. Barsa Consulting Group, LLC 400>390 914-251-1234 914-251-9406 fax http://www.barsaconsulting.com http://www.taatool.com "Debbie Panco" <dpanco43@ix.netcom To: "MIDRANGE" <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com> .com> cc: Sent by: Subject: Tape or Other Media / Common midrange-l-admin@mi drange.com 11/19/01 09:44 AM Please respond to midrange-l List Members, We are getting ready to upgrade our machine and are taking the opportunity to review our external media choices. We currently use a Magstar drive and an 8M tape drive. We use our external media to interface with other computers, quite often non-AS400 (IBM mainframes and such). Our understanding is that the Magstar is only an "AS400 world" drive. We would like to make sure that our media choice would be something that would be commonly used by the rest of the computing community so that our interfacing options will not be hampered or limited and that it will not just simply become obsolete in the near future. What is your input as far as what is most commonly used or preferred in the rest of the non-AS400 world? Are people getting away from tape drives and cartridges entirely? Are they gravitating to CD's or other media? Just trying to gather some other opinions and see what the rest of the world has to say. Thanks much, Deborah Panco Senior Systems Analyst / Project Leader United Consumer Financial Services dpanco43@ix.netcom.com 440-835-6674 _______________________________________________ This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/midrange-l or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@midrange.com Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l.
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