elliott@veronica.cs.wisc.edu (James Elliott) (01/26/91)
One of my friends used to use an LNW-80 computer with a Corvus hard disk. One of the neat boards he had allowed him to make backups of the drive to videotape using a regular VCR. This seems like a great idea. Not nearly as fast as streaming tape, but for backups who cares. You can fit a lot on a videotape. What I want to know is whether anyone has modernized this idea enough that such a device exists with a SCSI interface and appropriate driver software for the Macintosh. I'd love to be able to back up my hard drives onto my VCR instead of hundreds of floppies--even if it took as long, which I doubt, at least I wouldn't have to sit there changing disks during the process! If so, who makes it, and how much does it cost? $100 would seem a reasonable price to me... If not, then someone build one fast! :^) -- Jim Elliott "Like a bridge he'll come between us, not a wall" elliott@veronica.cs.wisc.edu