Re: video tapes for data?

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From: Ari Shamash
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 1988 21:54

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In article <8806280415.AA00419@violet.berkeley.edu> mwm@VIOLET.BERKELEY.EDU (Mike  Meyer, I'm in love with my car) writes:
>With all the people doing video work with the Amiga, surely someone
>has looked into hooking a deck up and using it for storage.
>

The last time I heard of anybody using videotape for backup was about
ten years ago.  At school, we had a PDP11 hooked up to a Corvus
Hard drive system.  The corvus had two plugs (video out/in), thus
allowing the entire corvus (20megs) to backup onto videotape..  The
idea was good, but the execution wasn't.  It took over 2 hours to back
it up, and the backups were not very reliable.  Then again, the
quality of VCRs has improved since then...

>	<mike

ari

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From: ari@cunixc.columbia.edu (Ari Shamash)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: video tapes for data?
Summary: Video tape backups..
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Date: 30 Jun 88 21:54:55 GMT
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