[Am-info] IBM Develops 1TB Tape Cartridge!

[Erick Andrews]

On Fri, 17 May 2002 15:43:01 -0400, Paul Rickard wrote:

>========== On 2002.05.17 03:36 PM, Fred A. Miller typed: ============
>
>>While it's not expected to be available for three to five years, IBM
>>announced
>>yesterday that it has produced the first tape cartridge with a full
>>terabyte of
>>storage capacity
>
>   If its developed, why isn't it available? I can understand a delay of 
>a few months while the company ramps up production or something, but a 
>delay of years? To me it just seems silly to announce it at this point... 
>Maybe I'm just ill today.
>

I don't know the exact reason, but I do know engineering a working product
and the volume manufacture of it are two different things.  Maybe they
have to build new plant and equipment to pump them out at an affordable
price.

Hope you're feeling better.

-- 
Erick Andrews