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About how much would a Sony SDT-5000 DAT run? ($US)

On Sun, 25 Feb 1996, Charles Henrich wrote:

> For the tape you should really spend the extra money and get a DAT drive.  For
> that I would recommend the Sony SDT-5000 compressing DAT.  Has a 1mb on-board
> buffer, and sustains nearly 900K/sec during a standard unix dump.  Slows down
> somewhat on already compressed data and such.  With a typical compression you
> get about ~8GB on a $15 120meter tape, or ~$4GB on a 90 meter tape ($7).