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From: cwilson@NISC.SRI.COM (Chan Wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: IS FPE/(A)I VCR BU
Keywords: backup, VCR, hard drives, syquest, removeable drives
Message-ID: <13152@fs2.NISC.SRI.COM>
Date: 13 Feb 90 21:16:04 GMT
References: <900201080038.260590@DOCKMASTER.ARPA> <1580@umigw.MIAMI.EDU> <1107@madnix.UUCP>
Reply-To: cwilson@NISC.SRI.COM (Chan Wilson)
Organization: Network Info Systems Ctr., SRI Intl., Menlo Park, CA.
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In article <1107@madnix.UUCP> jason@madnix.UUCP (Jason Blochowiak) writes:
>bsherman@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (Bob Sherman) writes:
>>TMPLee@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL writes:
>>> [This guy asked about AI's VCR tape backup card]
>>[This guy says AI has problems]
>[This one asks about the problems?]
>
>	Assuming the folks at AI do a reasonable job with the card (they said
>that it would be a card when I talked to them), has anyone had any real live
>experience with VCR backups on other machines? Or have there been VCR
>backups for the // before? It would seem that it's just a variation of the
>standard tape backup, with a little bit of wierdness thrown in because the
>VCR's of the world weren't designed to store (computer) data.

I'm not aware of previous VCR backup systems, but they've been available 
on the Alpha Micro systems for years.  In fact, AM markets a SCSI version
of this that you can use with a Mac.  You could use it on a GS, but you'd
have to write the software...

They work pretty good.  Slower than snot, but pretty good, especially if you 
can't afford a 80meg tape backup system.

>                      Jason Blochowiak - jason@madnix.UUCP

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