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

[Greg Buchner <null@none.invalid>]

In article <471e8609$0$4367$9b4e6d93@newsspool4.arcor-online.net>,
 Linards Ticmanis <ticmanis@gmx.de> wrote:

> in the Apple II entry of the German Wikipedia, somebody has suggested
> that cassette tapes continued to see some use on the Apple II for a
> while after the Disk II was available, namely as a backup medium for
> disks when those were still rather expensive. It says that "with special
> software", up to 30 floppies could be archived to one cassette. This
> would indeed have been quite a bit less costly than buying another 30
> disks for 5 Deutsche Mark apiece.
> 
> However I have never heard of such backup software, which I assume would
> need to store whole-disk images to the tape, in whatever format. Did it
> actually exist back in the day?

Once, long ago in the computer world, someone was going to send me a 
couple of tapes of disks and a copy of the program on a disk.

But I never got it. So apparently the program was out there. Never heard 
from the guy again.

Greg B.

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