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- From: ey@unix.brighton.ac.uk (yau)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Video Backup System ?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.104238.25547@unix.brighton.ac.uk>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 10:42:38 GMT
- References: <5579@ettarre.lulea.trab.se> <1993Jan21.160430.7798@lth.se>
- Sender: Edwin <ey@uk.ac.brighton.unix>
- Organization: University of Brighton, UK
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- In article <1993Jan21.160430.7798@lth.se> f92bw@efd.lth.se (Bjoern Wesen) writes:
- >In article <5579@ettarre.lulea.trab.se> lsa@lulea.trab.se (lsa) writes:
- >>Last night i was looking in the latest number of Amiga Format, and in an
- >>advert. i saw a backup system with a very low price tag. It obviously
- >>connects to the home VCR and you store backups directly to VHS casettes.
- >>
- >>Has anyone tried this system ?
- >>Does it work all the time ? if not how often does it fail ?
- >
- >I tried it with my S-VHS recorder, using it to back up a disk. It was full
- >of read errors when I restored the disk. I wouldn't trust such a device,
- >but I guess there are different error-correction schemes.
- >
- >Bjorn Wesen f92bw@efd.lth.se
- >
- If you read one of the back issues of Amiga Computing (I don't remember which),
- they reviewed one version by White Knight Technologies and said it was ok.
- I know Power Computing do one also. It isn't totally reliable, but then not
- every back-up systems are. If you do get one, it's best to use an S-VHS tape
- and VCR to back up to.
-
- Edwin Yau.
- Freelance Writer.
- ey@uk.ac.brighton.unix
-