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This type of magnetic tape, introduced by Sony, at one point threatened to supplant the normal audio cassette with a better quality alternative. Unfortunately, it never really took off due to foolish licensing issues that kept its price very high.However, the small tapes took off big in the computer industry. You can get DAT drives today that hold up to 40 GB of data compressed with DDS-4. Audio DAT tapes are not compati
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DAT - I believe the Editor may be inadvertantly misleading the originalposter on call transfer for residential servce.Call transfer is a feature that is available through all the BOCs.Generally it's sold only as a part of Centrex or Plexar or whateverthe local BOC is using for a name for that type of service. SBC (atleast in Texas and California) also sells the service as a standaloneproduct "Call Transfer". In Texas, it's $15 a month and $10 a month inCalifornia, where, for most business lines you pay a per minute fee.Business lines is the key. I've never seen a local operating company,Bell or otherwise offer this as a part of residential service. Some dooffer a modified Centrex for the home, but out of group transfer isnot part of the service package -- or an available option.Call transfer within a Centrex group has been available for manyyears, but more and more providers are offering the "transfer anddisconnect" feature with and without Centrex on any business line.However, I'm not aware of this service being available anywhere withresidential service. If I'm wrong, I'd love to hear, since my businessproduct uses this feature and residential access would widen mymarket!
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