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

[schmidtd <schmidtd@my-deja.com>]

On Oct 24, 1:34 pm, Patrick Schaefer <PSchae...@lycosxxl.de> wrote:
>  > 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?
>
> "Disk-O-Tape" by Dann McCreary. Distributed on cassette, around 1980. It
> works like ADT, reading raw sectors and writing them to tape.
After reading what writeups are available via Google, it sounds like
it would be fun and easy to write.  If only it were useful today!
Come to think of it, why would it have been useful in the day anyway?
For archival purposes so that you could re-use diskettes, maybe.  But
you need a physical diskette to reconstitute the data anyway...?