Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!husc6!rutgers!columbia!cunixc!ari From: ari@cunixc.columbia.edu (Ari Shamash) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: video tapes for data? Summary: Video tape backups.. Message-ID: <756@cunixc.columbia.edu> Date: 30 Jun 88 21:54:55 GMT References: <8806280415.AA00419@violet.berkeley.edu> Reply-To: ari@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu (Ari Shamash) Organization: Columbia University User Services Lines: 16 In article <8806280415.AA00419@violet.berkeley.edu> mwm@VIOLET.BERKELEY.EDU (Mike Meyer, I'm in love with my car) writes: >With all the people doing video work with the Amiga, surely someone >has looked into hooking a deck up and using it for storage. > The last time I heard of anybody using videotape for backup was about ten years ago. At school, we had a PDP11 hooked up to a Corvus Hard drive system. The corvus had two plugs (video out/in), thus allowing the entire corvus (20megs) to backup onto videotape.. The idea was good, but the execution wasn't. It took over 2 hours to back it up, and the backups were not very reliable. Then again, the quality of VCRs has improved since then... >