Re: Cassette Capacity

[dog_cow@macgui.com (D Finnigan)]

Steven Nelsonwrote:
> On Nov 30, 7:33�pm, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:
> 
>> My primary archival medium is at least two copies on recently-
>> manufactured hard disk drives, each of which is verified at least
>> once a year.
>>
>> I find that any other medium is so much less convenient to use and to
>> verify that I do not verify them. �Hard disks are now very cheap,
>> very dense, and very fast compared to the alternatives--and it's
>> trivial to migrate data to newer drives/interfaces every few years.
>>
>> With 1.5TB SATA drives now regularly on sale for less than $90, it's
>> hard to justify any other medium.
>>
>> -michael
> 
> The following post is in the spirit of fun and jest, with no
> disparagement meant :
> 
> Michael, good advice, but I am having difficulty doing what you
> suggest.  How do you hook a 1.5TB drive up to an Apple ][ (IIe or
> IIGS)?  I can't find one with the 'right' connector!  My interim
> attempt at a solution involves putting the large drive on an iMac -
> but how do I copy files over?  I currently use an older PowerPC
> running MacOS (7/8/9) with localtalk cabling and ethernet to a
> router.  Copy files over localtalk to the PowerPC and then copy the
> files over to the iMac over ethernet.  Slow but works.  The PowerPC is
> also running Localtalk Bridge, so the GS/OS Appleshare can 'see' the
> iMac, but I can't get a 'login' connection to actually mount the iMac
> drive on the GSOS Finder desktop.  Drats!
> 
> To make matters worse, when I use a cassette for transfer medium, the
> iMac doesn't load the files!  Double drats!
> 
> So, backing up an Apple][ to a cassette tape seems to be the better
> solution until Apple develops the OSX opsys and hardware to use the
> more robust medium (tape cassette), irregardless of storage costs.
> $0.02
> 
> Have a great day!
> 
>   --Steve
>

An amusing suggestion which I read of awhile back was to use an iPod to
store cassette tapes such that you'd plug a mini-plug from the iPod's
headphone jack in to the Apple's cassette-in port and start the "song"
playing on the iPod.

Now with the newer iPods which can also record from that same headphone
jack, we can make "cassettes" on the iPod and also play them back with a
Y-splitter cable.