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From: brianw@microsoft.UUCP (Brian Willoughby)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Backup to a VCR??
Summary: How about backup to DAT??
Message-ID: <9048@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 16 Nov 89 04:28:01 GMT
Article-I.D.: microsof.9048
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Reply-To: brianw@microsoft.UUCP (Brian Willoughby)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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In article <4734@yunexus.UUCP> gall@yunexus.UUCP (Norm Gall) writes:
>Does anyone remember a product hw/sw that allows one to back up to a
>VCR tape???  Am I crazy???  Was I dreaming???

I recently read about a DAT-based computer backup device.  I don't
remember any details.  It is certainly *possible* to write digital data
to a VCR in NTSC format (that's how the first consumer digital recording
units worked).

Brian Willoughby
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