Messages in this thread | | | Date | 18 Sep 1998 16:55:00 +0200 | From | (Kai Henningsen) | Subject | Re: NEWSFLASH! Linux ported to Commodore VIC-20!! |
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hpa@transmeta.com (H. Peter Anvin) wrote on 14.09.98 in <6tjrpq$8oa$1@palladium.transmeta.com>:
> There is no way you're going to get enough quality on NTSC to > distinguish that many pixels reliably. Especially not recorded on > VHS... But there *are* fairly cheap off-the-shelf devices that use > VHS tape recorders as data storage media; they were popular in the > early 90's.
Corvus Mirror (back when Corvus made Apple ][ hard disks). It recorded everything three times in case of errors; it actually did happen that all three copies of some block were bad.
I think the one I remember did backup in some dentist office.
MfG Kai
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