Re: IIe tape drive

[kibri@eudoramail.com (Tom Brown)]

david@uow.edu.au (David Wilson) wrote in message news:<3cd23303$1@news.uow.edu.au>...
> Kim Heui Jung <spix2000@kornet.net> writes:
> >I've used it long time ago for data saving before using the floppy drives.
> >It's a generic mono-type (not steteo) cassette tape recorder with the special
> >magnetic tapes.
> >Also the generic audio tapes are works well.
> >Maybe hard to find that old tape recorder...^^
> 
> These days you could use a Mini-Disc recorder :-). This has the nice features
> of editable tracks and track titles - up to 99 tracks on 80/160/320 minutes
> per disk depending on the quality you need (160min in mono should be
> no problem). Smaller than a cassette recorder as well...

Excellent Suggestion, the oid audio recorder system is very slow, I
even think that the SCSI Tape Drive was pretty slow and useless, sold
mine years ago.  I backup on superdrives on HD 1.44 Floppies, faster
and more data stored on less disks (yes I still have 128K diskettes
too).  Tom