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From: matth@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Matthew Hannigan)
Subject: Re: idea: floppy loading robot
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nagle@netcom.com (John Nagle) writes:

>matth@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Matthew Hannigan) writes:
>[ ... ] Calcomp, Grumman, and Control Data have also built
>robot tape libraries, but commercial success has been limited, and they
>never seemed to have IBM's touch with mechanical devices.

StorTek are big in this area as well.  Their product handle exabyte
as well as mainframish 3840 tapes.

>>It would have to cost less than a cheapish tape unit,
>>probably.  
>      That's the problem.

Yep. :-(  My main motivation is to handle many floppies written
some time ago, though, so it could be a little more expensive
than tape drives.

--
	-Matt Hannigan
