Re: Archiving disks to tape? (late 1970s)

[nyder <nyder.23@gmail.com>]

On Oct 24, 6:45 am, dangerman <thedangerman...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Just throwing this in - I wonder if someone is talking about the
> device that backs up to VHS tape?
>
> I remember reading about it but couldn't find the link to the US model
> or current software that can do it - but on the Wikipedia I did find
> the Russian one:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArVid
>
> A T180 tape can hold 2 gigs of uncompressed data...

There was something like that for the amiga, able to backup floppies/
HD's to VHS tape.

How well it worked, I don't know.  I never trusted VHS to hold movies
decent, let alone data...