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From: adrian@cs.hw.ac.uk (Adrian Hurt)
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Subject: Re: Hard disk back-up on a VCR ?
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Date: 14 Dec 87 11:06:21 GMT
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Organization: Computer Science, Heriot-Watt U., Scotland
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Summary: Nothing new

In article <9823@shemp.UCLA.EDU> khayo@MATH.UCLA.EDU (Erazm J. Behr) writes:
>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.
[...]
>such a gizmo. Any thoughts? hard facts? Is anyone out
>there actually using such a thing?
> 

I remember, several years ago, seeing such a thing. We had a hard disc system
acting as the file-store for an Apple network (remember the old Apple II ?).
I believe it was called Corvus (or maybe that was the manufacturer) and there
were two boxes involved. One was the hard disc unit, and one was a multiplexer
which connected 10 Apples to it. The hard disc unit had hardware built in,
called the Mirror interface, which could back up the contents of the hard disc
onto a VHS video tape.

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