On 02/08/2015 05:50 PM, Jules Richardson wrote:
On 02/08/2015 07:18 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
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.
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
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