30 Aug
2012
30 Aug
'12
3:55 p.m.
I've got this old 8-bit ISA card on my "interesting to try out" list.
It's a z80 based "backup to VCR" card by Autofax Corp Imager. The only
problem is I've got no software for it. Can anyone help?
Interestingly, a dump of the eprom show the text "'MaBr[2.4] (C) 1983-Corvus
Systems". Most of the references on the web for this are just adverts
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=0...page&q&f=false
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=0DsEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA28&lpg=PA28&am…
31 Aug
31 Aug
5:56 a.m.
On 8/30/2012 3:55 PM, Steve Hunt wrote:
I've got this old 8-bit ISA card on my
"interesting to try out" list.
Corvus had a videotape backup and then
later a device called the Bank,
but the processing for what hardware I saw was "dumb" just support
logic. The cpu of the PC did the heavy lifting.
The Bank used a corvus network node, I think to communicate, so there
was only a corvus net card in the backup server and software to support
the bank hardware.
I think Alpha Micro had a product too. Their surplus showed up here in
Orange County for a while when they crashed and burned but no software,
sorry, also they had no coprocessor either.
9:16 a.m.
I think Alpha Micro had a product too.
Yep. Most of their early machines had VCR backup interfaces, and you could
buy an ISA one with a special VCR. Mine was stolen recently out of my storage
unit. :-/
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