Xref: utzoo comp.sys.mac:10088 sci.electronics:1747 Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!ukc!its63b!hwcs!adrian From: adrian@cs.hw.ac.uk (Adrian Hurt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,sci.electronics Subject: Re: Hard disk back-up on a VCR ? Message-ID: <1586@brahma.cs.hw.ac.uk> Date: 14 Dec 87 11:06:21 GMT References: <9823@shemp.UCLA.EDU> <17312@bu-cs.BU.EDU> Organization: Computer Science, Heriot-Watt U., Scotland Lines: 26 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. -- "Keyboard? Tis quaint!" - M. Scott Adrian Hurt | JANET: adrian@uk.ac.hw.cs UUCP: ..!ukc!cs.hw.ac.uk!adrian | ARPA: adrian@cs.hw.ac.uk