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From: visinfo@ethz.UUCP (VISINFO c/o Sascha Schnapka)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Backup devices (was: Re: VCR Backup)
Keywords: WangTek, Syquest, removable media
Message-ID: <5120@ethz.UUCP>
Date: 16 Jul 90 14:03:32 GMT
References: <1776@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca>
Reply-To: visinfo@bernina.ethz.ch.UUCP (VISINFO c/o Peter Simeon)
Organization: ETH Zuerich, Switzerland
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In article <1776@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) writes:

>In <7588@gollum.twg.com>, david@twg.com (David S. Herron) writes:
>>In _Amazing_Amiga_'s latest product guide a VCR based backup device
>>is listed (price: $199).  There's a note saying they weren't able
>>to contact the company, and sho'nuff you call 'em up and ya get a
>>no-such-phone-number message.  They're in Vancouver, BC .. so are
>>they related to any of the Vancouver people on the net?

There is also a VCR Backup product made in Germany by the company
SuperFormance. It is availble now for about DM 150.--. You get a small
interface which connects into the Video and Serial Port with two connectors
for the VCR. The Software is not very intelligent yet, you can only 
backup and restore the whole partition.

The problem is that I couldn't get it to work with my configuration. I
used a GVP 68030 card, A HardFrame with a WREN VI drive on an Rev 6.2
Amiga 2000 when I tried it out. My VCR is a JVC HR-755E.
I know other poeple who could get the VCR Backup to work. They both used
relatively cheap VCRs.

I think now that a VCR Backup is not very reliable and if I can't get it
to work on my A3000 (I doubt it) I have to look for an alternative way.

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