Notably missing in the article was the mention of the floppy/IDE interface QIC tape drives, which were usually somewhere between $100-200 for the drive, with ta

Notably missing in the article was the mention of the floppy/IDE interface QIC tape drives, which were usually somewhere between $100-200 for the drive, with tapes usually just a few dollars each. By '97, I think I had been using a QIC 3080 drive for a couple of years, which was 1.6GB. This was a natural progression from the QIC-80s I had been using in ~1991 to swap warez because it was a lot easier to give people a tape than the dozen+ floppy most applications were being distributed on at that time. So, I do vaguely remember seeing VHS-based backup systems, but the price/capacity wasn't something that, at least in the US, was competitive against existing consumer tape systems. I do remember though having a couple big DAT drives at work, which were the data grade versions of VHS, but the drives were a lot more expensive.