John Painter wrote: >It has come to my attention through one of my customers that there is >currently a worldwide shortage of 120 DDS tapes-- the type needed for >the latest DDS-2 dat drives. I searched high and low for these tapes on >behalf of my customer, and every one of my distributors (wholesalers) >had many many thousands of backorders. The scuttlebutt says that there >is only one or two manufacturers of these tapes and that they have not >been able to meet the demand for the many new DDS-2 drives being sold. I can confirm the big-time backorder thing: I ordered 11 boxes = 55 of these little suckers from GTSI last **July** I believe it was......... Anyway, my order was just delivered a few weeks ago, in April 96; after I got into the loop and appropriately harrased the vendor (who did I believe try pretty hard for a long time before being able to lay hands on the boxes that I finally got). These 55 tapes are now in my possession...... Behind our guarded Station outer perimeter; behind internal access controls to our building; and then behind security doors to our office / computer areas...... .... So what am I bid for some of these tapes ??.... ;-) Ken Sletten