Xref: utzoo comp.sys.mac:9883 sci.electronics:1718 Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!rutgers!topaz.rutgers.edu!ron From: ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,sci.electronics Subject: Re: Hard disk back-up on a VCR ? Message-ID: <17010@topaz.rutgers.edu> Date: 13 Dec 87 16:48:25 GMT References: <9823@shemp.UCLA.EDU> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 10 I currently have two devices sitting on my desk. The first is a Sony DDR-700 digital encoder/decoder. This at very high speed encodes data into a rather conventional SONY BETA tape deck. Of course the thing is rather difficult to deal with. The other device I have is an EXABYTE SCSI tape unit that records on 8mm video tape cartridges. It looks fairly nice, does a sustained ~250 KByte a second (a bit on the slow side) but has a 256 K buffer. -Ron