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#Exabyte video Vs. Sony

    11-Feb-94 00:48:13
Fm: DONALD NEWLANDS 73170,3216
To: John Ellis 72440,3046
John, That sounds like just the right thing. We've just moved to Minnesota, I just installed three SCSI cards and I am shopping for a BIG tape drive and an animation service bureau. As we were moving I had the nightmare of having to finish a project as soon I could unpack a machine, then racing it out to a "service bureau", only to discover that I had been snookered by a clever salesman… We ended up sending the data over three times in three different formats before they got the stuff up, and then a guy sat there for three hours dragging each frame across his Mac desktop and "dropping" them one by one to the VTR…only to have the terrible salesman come back and try to bill me for all of those hours… Then, only a few days later to discover that a new 1 gig drive onto which I had dumped everything of any importance went dead as I was running a backup… This Exebyte (?) deal sounds like it might save me some grief. So, you buy the tape drive, then you buy this ADSG Windows driver…and they tell you where to send it for the incredibly cheap Abekas output… Sounds Great! Do you like the Exebyte as an all-around backup? Is it a good value? There are a lot of high capacity tape drives out there, does ADSG only work with this one? Thanks, Donald Newlands