Boulder, Colorado-based Exabyte Corp has a new desktop cartridge handling subsystem, the EXB-10i, that incorporates either an EXB-8200 or EXB-8500 Cartridge Tape Subsystem, offering native storage capacities of 25Gb or 50Gb respectively, in less than a square foot: a robotic cartridge-handling mechanism accesses up to 10 cartridges, either sequentially or randomly; beta shipments will begin in first quarter of 1991, and production shipments are scheduled for the second quarter; the single-quantity OEM price without drive and cartridges is $3,200, and the EXB-10 upgrades will come in at $300.
