29 Mar
2004
29 Mar
'04
8:09 p.m.
I'm in need of an Alpha Microsystems Videotrax tape backup unit (made
backups to VHS tape). I can use any hardware including controllers, etc.
but the Videotrax unit itself (a modified VCR) would be ideal.
Cash or trade. Need soon. Please contact me directly.
Thanks!
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30 Mar
30 Mar
1:23 a.m.
Sellam,
It it's the VHS that I'm thinking of then it wasn't just a backup device.
You could boot from it too! In fact, that's how you initially booted the
system and installed the OS to the hard drive. I don't have the VHS unit
but I do have one of the AM ssytems that uses it (an AM 1000). The tape
interface is built-in. It's working but appears to have a bad hard drive
controller. Any interest in it? See
<http://www.classiccmp.org/hp/am-1000/> for pictures.
Joe
At 11:09 PM 3/29/04 -0800, you wrote:
I'm in need of an Alpha Microsystems Videotrax tape backup unit (made
backups to VHS tape). I can use any hardware including controllers, etc.
but the Videotrax unit itself (a modified VCR) would be ideal.
Cash or trade. Need soon. Please contact me directly.
Thanks!
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Festival
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6:38 a.m.
On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, Joe R. wrote:
It it's the VHS that I'm thinking of then it
wasn't just a backup device.
You could boot from it too! In fact, that's how you initially booted the
system and installed the OS to the hard drive. I don't have the VHS unit
but I do have one of the AM ssytems that uses it (an AM 1000). The tape
interface is built-in. It's working but appears to have a bad hard drive
controller. Any interest in it? See
<http://www.classiccmp.org/hp/am-1000/> for pictures.
Yep, I've got a 1000 and a 1200. These are 68000-based machines with (I
believe) a funky bus so I probably can't use the interface inside and I
don't think they will be useful for my purposes (recovering data from VHS
data tapes).
What I really need is the PC interface because the files I'm recovering
were originally written on a PC. I've got a (mostly) complete library of
AM documentation that I need to go through but I'm sure I've got the
manuals for the setup I'm trying to build.
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