deKay <andyk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
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> Soni tem****i elseu romani yeof helsforo nisson ol sefini ill des Thu,
> 15 Feb 2007 19:22:12 +0000, sefini jorgo geanyet des mani yeof do
> uk.culture.nostalgia.1980s, yawatina tan reek esk Lister
> <fache@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> fornis do marikano es bono tan el:
>
>>On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 23:25:41 -0600, Scribbler
>><ngs_0501@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>>>
>>>> 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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