And here is a first for this column: a price request. If you resell DLTs or SDLTs, preferably 160Gb or more, drop me a line please. And, if I have been wrong about CDs, drop me a line too.

I have clients out there in other government departments who depend on CD and DVD back-up for auditing purposes, and I do not need complaints about lost data from three to five years ago.

-- Charl Bergkamp is an overworked, underpaid systems support engineer in the Lambda Bureau, the ICT department of the Ministry of Boards, Committees and Working Groups. He would love to hear from kindred spirits in the ICT corporate world. Send tip-offs, hints and blatant accusations to charl.bergkamp@gmail.com.