Alpha Microsystems VHS backup working!

[Vintage Computer Festival]

On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Steven N. Hirsch wrote:

> On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 21 Feb 2005, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
> >
> > > and I was able to pull a tape's worth of files (roughly 30 megabytes).  It
> > > took about an hour and a half to dump.  These are 17-18 year old VHS
> > > tapes, and they're still holding up well.
> >
>
> Glad to see you were able to make use of the ISA adapter card!  Congrats.

Yeah, thanks again! ;)  I managed to score one more half-length as well as
the original full-length card off ebay (in the original box for each  no
less).

> I've had very mixed success with the Corvus Mirror videotape backup.

One of these days (either by need or curiosity) I'll try it on my end.  I
have no idea how Corvus' system compares to AM's in terms of how they
store blocks and compensate for tape quality, etc.  But AM's system is
pretty robust.

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Sellam Ismail                                        Vintage Computer Festival
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