Tape backup unit: Any clues? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

15 Nov 1997

At 09:52 11/15/97 -0800, you wrote:
...
 Came across an interesting find recently....a
Pertec-interface TBU that uses, of all things, a VHS cassette mechanism to
back up as much as 2 gigabytes to a normal T120 VHS tape.

	I'm just curious if anyone else has crossed paths with this unit. It's
called a 'Gigastore.' 
Such a device, maybe not this particular make, was the standard OEM backup
for Alpha Micro minicomputers.  Mid-eighties.  Not madly reliable.

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