Re: Think About

deKay <andyk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 23:25:41 -0600, Scribbler
<ngs_0501@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


I meant like a drive you could fit in a drive bay

No. Those would be stupidly expensive to market and manufacture for
what is a totally obselete format. Yes, I'm aware that there are
things like USB audio tape decks, sold for RIDICULOUS amounts of
money, but those are hardly complicated machines.

Some odd company somewhere will probably have manufactured one, sold
about 3 of them, each of them costing an arm, leg and your favourite
goat.

Aren't VHS tapes considerably bigger than a 5.25 drive bay anyway?


Oh, erm :)

No need to erm at all. I used to have, at work, a tape backup system
which backed data up to VHS tape. The hardware fitted into two 5.25"
drives bays, and took a VHS tape sideways.

Backing up to VHS isn't exactly what Lister was referring to, but that
sounds like an awful piece of kit :) Were 5.25 slots "different" back
then? I can't see how you can get a VHS tape to fit into 2 bays, unless
they were side-by-side in a desktop case.

There was an ISA card
which this connected to, and some software which linked it into NT
Backup.

I never actually used it though. It was a museum piece back then, and
IIRC only did about 500Mb in 5 hours.

I do remember a similar backup thing for the Amiga, which looked just as
tacky.

http://www.amiga-hardware.com/showhardware.cgi?HARDID=776

Suppose it wouldn't be too bad if all you were backing up is a few
floppies, but even then, backing them up to other floppies is a much
easier solution.

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