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- From: crystal@glia.biostr.washington.edu (Crystal)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Backup on VCR
- Date: 8 Jan 93 00:40:59 GMT
- Organization: University of Washington
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- Message-ID: <crystal.726453659@glia>
- References: <72918@cup.portal.com> <1993Jan6.015343.982@miavx3.mid.muohio.edu> <1993Jan7.145418.28574@fwi.uva.nl> <73098@cup.portal.com>
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- In <73098@cup.portal.com> DonH@cup.portal.com (Don - Hirschfeld) writes:
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- >The two hrs to backup a 40 meg isn't the problem with the backup card/SW
- >but the problem that consumer VCRs can only go as fast as 2hrs/T-120 tape.
- >If one uses a special video tape device which can write faster then it would
- >cost a lot more than the original $250 for the 2hr setup. What do want for
- >$50 used?
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- The question in MY mind is, does it only backup the PC side of the harddisk,
- or can it be used to back up the AMIGA side? Note that it is a PC card, and
- the person selling it has been unable to answer this Amiga question. (he did
- not say whether or not there was a manual for it...) *sigh*
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- Crystal
- :>
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