9 Feb
2015
9 Feb
'15
2:54 a.m.
On 2/8/2015 6:28 PM, jwsmobile wrote:
On 2/8/2015 6:03 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
Following up with a link to some book with a reference about AMOS tape
backup:
https://books.google.com/books?id=F-Y0wdIIucgC&pg=PA63&lpg=PA63&…
Not sure how to get this mangled mess thru to people from the google
books link, but here is the search and the book reference:
alpha micro tape backup
"Encyclopedia of Microcomputers: Volume 1 - Access Methods to Assembly
Language and Assemblers", Allen Kent, James G. Williams October 1, 1987
http://www.crcpress.com/product/isbn/9780824727000
And a monument to the ridiculous way that books are priced, CRC
publishing wants $306.90US for a copy.
thanks
Jim
On 02/08/2015 05:50 PM, Jules Richardson wrote:
Alpha Micro made a card that did backups to VHS.
Corvus had a thing called the bank, and I think they also had a gizmo
to do the tape backup to video tape. The Bank device was just a
product they did for whatever reason.
I have a case of Bank tapes somewhere and a backup device. The
interface was a Corvus network connection.
Jim
On 02/08/2015 07:18 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
Yeah, I had one of those--just an ISA card with some connectors. It
was S-L-O-W and not terribly reliable. I don't recall who made it.
--Chuck
Magtape filesystems have been around since the
1950s at least, and
possibly
the 50s.
Wasn't there at least one which used good ol' VHS video tape as the
storage medium? And by good, I mean bad.