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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!sunic!news.lth.se!f92bw
- From: f92bw@efd.lth.se (Bjoern Wesen)
- Subject: Re: Video Backup System ?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.160430.7798@lth.se>
- Sender: news@lth.se
- Organization: Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden
- References: <5579@ettarre.lulea.trab.se>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 16:04:30 GMT
- Lines: 16
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- In article <5579@ettarre.lulea.trab.se> lsa@lulea.trab.se (lsa) writes:
- >Last night i was looking in the latest number of Amiga Format, and in an
- >advert. i saw a backup system with a very low price tag. It obviously
- >connects to the home VCR and you store backups directly to VHS casettes.
- >
- >Has anyone tried this system ?
- >Does it work all the time ? if not how often does it fail ?
- >
- >TANX.
-
- I tried it with my S-VHS recorder, using it to back up a disk. It was full
- of read errors when I restored the disk. I wouldn't trust such a device,
- but I guess there are different error-correction schemes.
-
- Bjorn Wesen f92bw@efd.lth.se
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