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From: malpass@LL-VLSI.ARPA (Don Malpass)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.zenith.z100
Subject: Re:  Heath "Winchester backup tape"
Message-ID: <8811151404.AA22041@ll-vlsi.arpa>
Date: 15 Nov 88 14:04:10 GMT
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As it happens, I have an OLD OLD Betamax (back when they cost
$1300) that is gathering dust, and I'm too proud to chuck it
out since it still "works".  Can you offer any solid pointers
to products which might make use of it?  I'm only interested
in doing a WHOLE-DISK backup on such a thing (eg I can live with manual
operation), since I can do monthly incremental backups on floppys.  But
it has to be reliable enough that I'm willing to reformat my hard disks
and not worry about restoring from it.  And I s'pose I'd be willing to
use either my newer Beta or my VHS vcr for the same purpose if I really
thought it was super reliable.  Any suggestions?
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Don Malpass   [malpass@LL-vlsi.arpa],  [malpass@spenser.ll.mit.edu] 
  The Malpass Principle:  Given a binary choice, the statistical
    probability of doing the right thing is 31.7% - on good days.