Re: New VXA-2 (8mm) tape.

[Neil Palmer <neilp@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Also available as an external drive, the 7206.
It's an interesting development on 8mm and almost immune to tape damage. 
Check out:  http://www.exabyte.com/technology/vxa/

...Neil




Larry Bolhuis <lbolhuis@xxxxxxxxxx> 
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While I like the things Andy mentioned, the one that I think is most 
Interesting is the return of internal 8 MM tape!!  Yes friends IBM has 
once again provided an internal 8 MM tape drive with up to 160 GB 
capacity at 12 MB/sec throughput. It uses the AME type of tapes 
including the 170M ones you may have around from the 20/40G Mammoth 
drives, and it's reasonably priced at $2,600. Of course we need a little 
rain on our 8 MM party: It's not compatible with any previous 8 MM 
format on iSeries.

 My .02!
  - Larry