uucibg@sw1e.UUCP (3929]) (06/13/89)
In article <5190@pt.cs.cmu.edu> aki@speech1.cs.cmu.edu (Yoshiaki Ohshima)writes: >Message-Id: <0YWo0ey00W0KE0bkxo@andrew.cmu.edu> >Date: Mon, 5 Jun 89 23:08:26 -0400 (EDT) >From: Nathan James Loofbourrow <nl0s+@andrew.cmu.edu> >To: Yoshiaki.Ohshima@speech1.cs.cmu.edu >Subject: Re: Backup using VCR >In-Reply-To: <Added.IYWKGAq00Ui3A76k9i@andrew.cmu.edu> >References: <Added.IYWKGAq00Ui3A76k9i@andrew.cmu.edu> >Status: R > >I was looking at Videotrax at Macworld 88 - it's a perfectly nice >system, but (a) it's slow, and (b) it's expensive. ($499, provided you >already own a VCR) You can get a dedicated tape backup device for as >little as $700, which is many many times faster, and includes a true >verify. Videotrax cheats by storing data redundantly (to catch errors) >which I suppose is reliable as long as someone didn't rewire your VCR so >he/she could watch Revenge of the Nerds. "-) You can't really be sure >that everything stored okay until you rewind and replay it. > >Nathan Loofbourrow > Hmm, this brings up a question. What are the current prices for the various tape/removable harddisk/bernoulli/etc/etc/etc systems? Has anyone had a particularly good or bad experience with a given vendor or product? Which ones are compatible with A/UX (as if I'll ever really be able to afford it, sigh)? I'm looking for a Mac II so I guess NuBus driven systems would be okay, though the idea seems a bit strange when the SCSI port beckons... Thanks, ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brian R. Gilstrap | Southwestern Bell Telephone | Disclaimer: ...!ames!killer!texbell!sw1e!uucibg | One Bell Center Rm 17-G-4 | my mouth & ...!bellcore!texbell!sw1e!uucibg | St. Louis, MO 63101 | fingers: my ...!uunet!swbatl!sw1e!uucibg | (314) 235-3929 | opinions ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Winnie-the-Pooh read the two notices very carefully, first from left to right, and afterwards, in case he had missed some of it, from right to left." -- A. A. Milne