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From: lsr@apple.UUCP (Larry Rosenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,rec.video,sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Hard disk back-up on a VCR ?
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Date: 14 Dec 87 17:57:41 GMT
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In article <9823@shemp.UCLA.EDU> khayo@MATH.UCLA.EDU (Erazm J. Behr) writes:
>(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.

I believe Corvus had such a product (called Mirror ?) for backing up its
hard disks.  A long, long time ago (back in the days of Lisa development),
some people on the Lisa project used this for archiving files.  I don't know
how well it worked, since that was before my time, but it did exist.  

During one of our moves, we discovered a box of tapes with peoples names on
them.  We thought they might have been secret confessions or job interviews,
but they turned out to be archived disks.

-- 
Larry Rosenstein

Object Specialist
Apple Computer

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