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From: joel@peora.UUCP (Joel Upchurch)
Newsgroups: net.periphs
Subject: Re: Storing Data on a VCR
Message-ID: <2149@peora.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 6-May-86 08:56:12 EDT
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Posted: Tue May  6 08:56:12 1986
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In article <> rb@ccird2.UUCP (Rex Ballard) writes:
>Conservatively, VCR technology can store 1 megabyte per second, and
>VHS tapes can be packed to 6 hours.
>
>Actually, with slight changes in the drive motors, it would be possible
>to store something like 7 Gigabytes on a VCR

In an article in the May 1986 BYTE on page 171 it says that  Honeywell
has  a  device  that can store 10,000 megabytes i.e. 10 gigabytes on a
VHS cassette.  It says that they use a VHS transport  with  their  own
encoding and decoding electronics.
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