CompuServe Messages

Thanks for clarifying things a bit more. I'll have to call around to see who will accept DAT backups. I have a PAR, and while it's a wonderful thing, I would like to have some of my final animations put out via abekas to betacamSP, just to have them on hand (when I can afford it… IF its affordable). Or I might just rent a betacam deck for a day and dump right from the PAR. I recently was forced to get a high capacity tape drive and despite wanting an Exabyte, was forced to get a sony DAT because of the price ($2200 or so for the Exabyte, $900 for the Sony). I do love it though… it will read/write DDS or DDS2 (120m) tapes and store up to 16 gigs on one tape. Its fast too, it'll backup one gig in just over 30 minutes (quite a jump from the Colorado 250, there was no way I was going to try to dump 3.5 gigs of disc onto QIC80 tapes!). David