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From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Nur Iskandar Taib)
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Subject: Re: Backup on VCR?
Message-ID: <1991May7.203938.9821@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
Date: 7 May 91 20:39:38 GMT
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>|> I remember reading on the net about a card that can be used to hook up
>|> to a VCR and one can backup data using the VCR. It sounds like a good
>|> alternative to buying a tape subsystem because I have an old VCR sitting
>|> around gethering dust. 

>|> Does anyone has more info about the card?

>IMHO, it's a waste of a perfectly good VCR.  For the same price, you could buy
>a Colorado Backup system, that will beat the pants off the VCR Backup (we're



PC Connection sells a $99 card to do just this. You
just need a spare VCR. If you already have one that
you use for movies you might as well use it for back-
ups.








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