Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/11/27

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Subject: Re: Digital storage???
From: Eric Welch <ewelch@ponyexpress.net>
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 16:42:38 -0600

At 11:48 AM 11/27/97 -0600, you wrote:

>For a while several LUGs have been talking about digital backs, switch to
>digital by photojournalists, etc.  Question?  How will all this stuff be
>stored and managed???  Seems that it will become an overwhelming job
>fairly soon.

Right now, a system that would fulfill a newspaper's needs costs about
$50,000 to $100,000. Not your typical home system. But one I know about
will store something like 13 terabytes of data online. I think that would
meet most needs.
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Eric Welch
St. Joseph, MO
http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch

Give me ambiguity or give me something else.