Tape gains popularity as a backup medium

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Tape is gaining popularity as a medium for backing up hard disks, as are other alternatives to the relatively small but popular back up capability of floppy disks. As the size of the average hard drive grows and commonly surpasses 100Mbytes, users are finding it increasingly difficult and time-consuming to use floppies, despite the low cost and portability of the disks. In 1991, mini-cassette tape drives became more popular as prices dropped below $200. These tape drives are small and can copy up to 250Mbytes of data per cassette. Most basic drives are formatted to hold 40Mbytes or 80Mbytes, but this is almost always doubled or tripled by the use of compression technology included in accompanying software. Other back up media include digital cassette drives, digital audio tape (DAT), Bernoulli drives and eight-millimeter tape drives.

Product information, Prices and rates, Computer storage device industry, Price cutting, Back-Up Systems, Tape Drive, Tape drives

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Far better print quality, but is there a market for it?

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A new breed of 600 dot-per-inch (dpi) laser printers are producing remarkably sharp and impressive images, but users may not find that the quality justifies the cost. Laser printers form images by printing dots on a sheet. The more dots, the better the picture. Apple set the 300-dpi standard in 1985. The 300-dpi printers offer much more accurate pictures than the dot matrix printers, but some images and text still show jagged edges and obvious dots. The quality of the new printers is particularly important for users who print halftone images. The technology that helps companies produce 600-dpi printers has been around for several years, but the products have typically cost as much as $10,000 per printer. They are now below $5,000 per printer.

Computer peripheral equipment, not elsewhere classified, Supply and demand, Laser printers, Performance improvement (Computers), Laser Printer, Trends, Market Analysis, Performance Improvement, High Resolution

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The easier hard disk gets faster

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Plus Development Corp is planning a hard disk drive that costs as much as conventional drives but operates much faster and is substantially easier to install. The new disk drives, called the Hardcard II-XL 50 and the Hardcard II-XL 105, are designed to be used with Intel Corp 80286- and 80386-based microcomputers. Analysts expect the new hard drives will appeal to to anyone who needs to add a hard drive for the first time, wants to upgrade a hard disk for more storage capacity or requires improved performance from a faster hard disk so as to take advantage of Microsoft Windows 3.0 graphical user interface and other memory-demanding applications. The new hard disk drives are expected to cost between $579 and $999.

Disk drives, Hard disk drives, column, Hard Disk Drive, Plus Development Corp.

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