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Subject: BACK UP FOR PC ON VIDEOTAPE
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Date: Wed, 23-May-84 17:43:00 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 23 17:43:00 1984
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Someone out there asked about inexpensive ways to backup data without buying a
tape drive or something similar.  Corvus (maker of the Corvus Omninet and
Corvus Concept computer) has an IBM PC board out that allows the user to
backup data on a VCR machine.  The card has an in and an out phono cable that
connects to the normal in and out phono jacks on the VCR.  You then backup
data on a VCR tape.  Corvus uses this method with their Omninet too.  On the
Omninet it works well and takes 33 or 37 (I am not sure) minutes to back up
10Meg.  I have no experience with the card version although I have used the
Omninet version.  The dat is recorded 4 times with error correction codes
added to insure that data is accurate.  I don't know how much it costs but
relative to a tape drive it s cheap if you already have access to any type VCR
machine.

Kevin Rappold
1LT  GS
1st COSCOM
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