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There seem to be few people, who have some experience with that product.
Actually I'm still looking forward to hearing from videotrax users,
and also several people have asked me to follow up.

So far, I've heard from my neighbourhood (thanks Nathan!), and
here's the story.

						-aki

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Message-Id: <0YWo0ey00W0KE0bkxo@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: Mon,  5 Jun 89 23:08:26 -0400 (EDT)
From: Nathan James Loofbourrow <nl0s+@andrew.cmu.edu>
To: Yoshiaki.Ohshima@speech1.cs.cmu.edu
Subject: Re: Backup using VCR
In-Reply-To: <Added.IYWKGAq00Ui3A76k9i@andrew.cmu.edu>
References: <Added.IYWKGAq00Ui3A76k9i@andrew.cmu.edu>
Status: R

I was looking at Videotrax at Macworld 88 - it's a perfectly nice
system, but (a) it's slow, and (b) it's expensive. ($499, provided you
already own a VCR) You can get a dedicated tape backup device for as
little as $700, which is many many times faster, and includes a true
verify. Videotrax cheats by storing data redundantly (to catch errors)
which I suppose is reliable as long as someone didn't rewire your VCR so
he/she could watch Revenge of the Nerds. "-) You can't really be sure
that everything stored okay until you rewind and replay it.

Nathan Loofbourrow


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