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From: elliott@veronica.cs.wisc.edu (James Elliott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Is there a SCSI<-->NTSC Video data storage device?
Keywords: Inexpensive backup
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Date: 26 Jan 91 06:50:31 GMT
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One of my friends used to use an LNW-80 computer with a Corvus hard
disk. One of the neat boards he had allowed him to make backups of the
drive to videotape using a regular VCR. This seems like a great idea.
Not nearly as fast as streaming tape, but for backups who cares. You
can fit a lot on a videotape.

What I want to know is whether anyone has modernized this idea enough
that such a device exists with a SCSI interface and appropriate driver
software for the Macintosh. I'd love to be able to back up my hard
drives onto my VCR instead of hundreds of floppies--even if it took as
long, which I doubt, at least I wouldn't have to sit there changing
disks during the process!

If so, who makes it, and how much does it cost? $100 would seem a
reasonable price to me... If not, then someone build one fast! :^)
-- 
Jim Elliott		      "Like a bridge he'll come between us, not a wall"
elliott@veronica.cs.wisc.edu