[geeks] ive been converted

Jonathan Katz geeks at sunhelp.org
Mon Jul 16 08:10:37 CDT 2001


Nick wrote:
> i worked as an intern for a company that made those.  30gig media in 12"
> form-factor, i think, and the media was something like $1k per disc.  a
> single-disc drive retails for about $30k, though almost all their customers
> buy in quantity, so they pay much less.  though the jukeboxes i saw only
> held about 10 discs at a time (not quite 20k).  i think if you wanted more,
> you just bought another drive and hooked it up to your scsi card.  fast wide
> differential scsi.  very cool product, and a cool company to work for, too.

Cool, so those wacky co-workers of mine *weren't* pulling my leg with that
story! They also hinted that company only had about 5 or 6 real employees?

-Jon



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