8mm cassette tape

[Raphael Arane]

Apollo has the 8mm cassette backup tape with 2.3GB capacity.  What
experience/knowledge netters have about this tape with respect to:

- Reliability
- Cost of cassettes
- Availability of cassettes
- Popularity, esp. among workstations; do Sun, SGI have them?
- Do you think this might become an industry standard
  as the 1/4 inch cartridge tape did?
- Anything else that deems relevant

I'll try to summarize and post the responses that will be e-mailed
directly to me.

Thanks.

-- Rafi Arane
   arane at me.utoronto.ca            Tel (416) 749-0880
   arane at me.toronto.edu            Fax (416) 749-9669