Re: Most overhyped Apple II product???

[hirsch@ibm.net (Steven N. Hirsch)]

Doktor DynaSoar (DynaSoar@YGRI.net) wrote:
: Paul Schultz <pschultz@med.wayne.edu> sent bitwaves which read:
: }On 14 Jun 1997, Steve Reeves wrote:
: }
: }> 
: }> My vote goes to the gizmo from Applied Ingenuity that promised to back up
: }> your hard drive to a videotape.  I really wanted one of those.

: I had one on order.

: }Funny, I remember this vaporware. And, I just saw the equivalent
: }product advertised in the Tiger Direct Catalog for PC/Windows.
: }Up to 9GB on a 'standard' video tape.

: Not a new idea. I sold the same thing from Corvus in '83.
: Never saw an Apple driver for the hardware though, or I'd have had one.

Corvus actually produced three variants on this theme: One was an
adapter card for the IBM PC, another an internal board for the older
"flat-cable" network servers, and the last was a standalone VCR
interface for Omninet.

I have the Omninet Mirror Server, and it does support backup from a
ProDOS or DOS host.  Kinda slow, kinda flakey, but fun <g>.

On the same subject, I have been given an Alpha Micro VCR interface
for IBM PC, but have been unable to locate the support software.
Anyone have this or know where it might be found?

Steve