Xref: utzoo comp.sys.mac:9790 rec.video:2322 sci.electronics:1708 Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!oberon!cit-vax!ucla-cs!sonia!khayo From: khayo@sonia.cs.ucla.edu (Erazm J. Behr) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,rec.video,sci.electronics Subject: Hard disk back-up on a VCR ? Message-ID: <9823@shemp.UCLA.EDU> Date: 11 Dec 87 02:34:03 GMT Sender: root@CS.UCLA.EDU Reply-To: khayo@MATH.UCLA.EDU (Erazm J. Behr) Lines: 20 Hi; leafing through some sleazy-looking mag. full of ads (mostly PC oriented) I stumbled on a very good (or so it seemed to me) idea. I wonder if anyone can comment on its feasibility - I don't know much about the technical details involved. There is apparently a product (add-on board, software, cables etc.) that lets you back up a hard disk on a VCR (VHS) cassette. The transfer rate given in the ad wasn't great (?), something like 1MB/min, but I guess every poor man's solution has its drawbacks. Now, it seems likely that the Mac SCSI port with some (trivial? complicated?) box with electronics connected to the PCM input that most *8mm* VCR's have could be a better/faster combination. Of course, poor people don't usually own fancy new digital VCR's - but those who do could certainly use such a gizmo. Any thoughts? hard facts? Is anyone out there actually using such a thing? Eric ----------------------------------------------------------- >>>>---------------> khayo@MATH.ucla.edu