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#59615From: Richard BaycroftSep 30, 1993 1:57 PM

TO ALL 3D STUDIO USERS: Mirage Graphics Inc. is considering implementing a "Rendering Farm". Proposed is a setup of a number of 486's, (10-20), that would provide true network rendering of your animations, made possible with 3D Studio Release 3 and its network rendering capabilities. Along with this, we wil be obtaining several types of drives such as Bournelli, SyQuest, and Sony. What storage media you use and how you would prefer to send it is what is needed to be known in order to best meet your needs. We would greatly appreciate feedback from any users who may have a use for such a service, and we look forward to your replies!

#59650From: John TissavarySep 30, 1993 6:17 PM

I would prefer Exabyte 8mm tape. It's cheap, holds a lot (5 gigabytes on my driver), and fast (backed up 1 gig last night in 28 minutes). What will you charge for your service?

#59703From: MARTIN G FOSTEROct 1, 1993 12:35 AM

Richard, a dedicated server with an enormous hard drive (3gb+), a optical rewritable or an exabyte tape backup for archives would be just the ticket.

#59823From: Angelo Guarino [DTI Inc]Oct 1, 1993 5:20 PM

Can the optical rewrittable for a recordable CD-ROM … now that would be a system.

#59928From: MARTIN G FOSTEROct 2, 1993 2:41 PM

I don't know if there are any magneto-optical re-writable drives that can also create cd-rom standards. It would be nice but I've never heards of one. Cd-rom recorders seem to be getting a lot of press lately.

#59964From: Peter M. GruhnOct 2, 1993 8:39 PM

>> I don't know if there are any magneto-optical re-writable drives that can also create cd-rom << I shouldn't think so. Entirely different media.

#60178From: David TaffetOct 4, 1993 1:28 PM

Recent advert was for a CD-ROM recorder/player at $999 or so!

#60193From: MARTIN G FOSTEROct 4, 1993 3:20 PM

>> Recent advert was for a CD-ROM recorder/player at $999 or so! Good grief! That's amazing. I wonder if it's any good. I'm sure you'd need one or two large hard drives along with that.

#60299From: David TaffetOct 5, 1993 12:27 PM

I suspect the CD-ROM recorder is "good", but probably slow as molasses. I gather a large part of what makes the recorders good or not is the efficiency of the software used to set up the disks and lay the data thereon. FWIW

#60369From: MARTIN G FOSTEROct 5, 1993 10:37 PM

David, owning a cd-rom recorder sounds pretty intriguing but it's a bit low on my list of wishlist hardware. A new humongous hard drive and controller is pretty high up, though.

#60467From: David TaffetOct 6, 1993 1:06 PM

Well, a CD-ROM recorder is pretty low on my list, too. I just had to butt in on your other conversation with barely relevant trivia. D {tryin' to keep those plates spinning on those dowls. "Lady of Spain" anyone?} T

#59772From: Oct 1, 1993 11:49 AM

Richard: Exabyte. Hopefully both DOS and UNIX flavors. Greg Pyros