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

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

nyder wrote:
> 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...

The usual scheme recorded the data doubly or triply redundant, so
it was more immune to dropouts.

This was in the days before sophisticated coding for error correction.

-michael

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