VHS Tapes as storage.

From: Steven N. Hirsch <shirsch_at_adelphia.net>
Date: Tue Feb 11 06:09:01 2003

On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Bill Richman wrote:

> I used to have one of those cards, along with the manual and software. I
> don't know if it made the move with me a couple of years ago or not. If
> anybody really wants it, I'll try to dig it up. As I recall from the
> manual, it basically just wrote the whole backup to tape 3 times and hoped
> for the best. There was no error recovery or search capability because
> the PC didn't control the VCR.
>
> On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Stan Barr wrote:
> >
> > I certainly remember an ISA card and software combo that did that.
> > I could probably find an advert in an old magazine if I did a little
> > digging. I'll look later...
>

If anyone has the software and/or documentation for an Alpha Micro ISA bus
backup card, I would like to get my hands on it.

Steve
Received on Tue Feb 11 2003 - 06:09:01 GMT