Scribbler wrote:
> deKay <andyk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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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:
>>>
>>>>> 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.
>
Would be one drive bay above the other.
That Amiga one is rather odd.
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