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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Subject: Re: Backup software using OS/2 Multimedia ?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.183416.5622@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
- References: <92349.105517RONY@awiwuw11.wu-wien.ac.at>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 18:34:16 GMT
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- In article <92349.105517RONY@awiwuw11.wu-wien.ac.at> FLATSCHER Rony <RONY@awiwuw11.wu-wien.ac.at> writes:
- >Backing up 200MB, 400MB, nowadays starting with 1GB drives becomes more and
- >more a pain and expensive.
- >In the case of Multimedia OS/2 it would seem to be feasible to utilize the
- >available hardware to e.g. make backups to video tape-recorders. As the hard-
- >ware would be in place for MM-users that would be some gimmick (maybe even
- >shareware stuff ?).
- >So, does anyone know of anybody working on backup/restores utilizing MM-stuff ?
- >I would not mind if a backup lasts for hours as under OS/2 it would not hamper
- >me working at the same time on my other stuff.
-
- All the MMPM/2 Toolkit programming information is on the PDK CD-ROM,
- so some enterprising programmer might want to tackle this one.
-
- We must be thinking on the same wavelength, because I had a great idea
- for a hardware device. Someone should come up with a tape drive that
- does both 8mm Hi8 video and 8mm tape backup. The technologies are
- very similar -- one would have to combine both in the same deck,
- that's all.
-
- Great for road presentations, I would think.
-
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