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- From: joeadato@tcpbbs.pcn.org (Joseph Adato)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
- Subject: Re: Video streamer
- Message-ID: <225uqB5w164w@tcpbbs.pcn.org>
- Date: Wed, 09 Sep 92 22:06:48 EDT
- References: <1992Sep7.090355.131020@mswe.dnet.ms.philips.nl>
- Organization: TCP BBS, Cleveland, Ohio
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- mboom@mswe.dnet.ms.philips.nl writes:
-
- > There is a recent discussion about tape drives for the Atari. Because of
- > the high list price I was lloking for an alternative. At the Atari Fair in
- > Dusseldorf I found it. It was a pitty they where not yet in production
- > but I ordered one anyway. It is a video streamer. It uses a standard VCR
- > which has to be equiped with a scart connector as backup device. It backups
- > 600 Mb on a E240 tape. So about 2.5 Mb per minute. It can make image backups
- > as well as file backups and restores visa versa. I don't have the address of
- > the German company on hand. If anyone wants some more info, drop me a mail.
- >
- > BTW the listprice of the device, which connects on the parallel port, is abou
- > DM249,- which is at the current ratio about $180,-
- >
- Didn't Michtron have a similar device a few years back?? It seems to me
- I remember such a device. There are a cartridge which pluged into the
- cartridge port with two cables at the other end that pluged into your
- vcr. If I remember it was slow and there was a limit as to how big a
- file would copy to the video tape.
-