[Duo2400] DAT drives. Re: [Duo2400] Re: Mysterious hard drive problem SOLVED

[Mike Hayes]

it's stiil tape - magnetic. In a funny way, that Danmere is is exactly 
like a DV tape. 1's and 0's on magnetic tape.

On Wednesday, September 10, 2003, at 06:38  AM, Gregg Eshelman wrote:

> --- ElBrio at aol.com wrote:
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>> Tape drives work well, too.  I've got a DAT drive
>> I'm not using if anyone is
>> interested...HP mechanism, holds like 6 gigs.
>> Retrospect does a fine job.
>> Got two drives, I'm not giving up on DATs.
>
> What goes around, comes around. Anyone else here
> ever have a home computer in the 80's and saved
> stuff to audio cassette tapes?
>
> DAT is Digital, but it's still Audio Tape. :)
>
> Hmmm, also in the 80's was a gizmo called the
> Danmere Backer which used any ordinary VHS VCR for
> data backup with a pretty large capacity. Now Digital
> VHS is available...
>
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