Messages in this thread |  | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: Linux VCR driver? | Date | Thu, 5 Dec 1996 19:33:10 -0800 (PST) |
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> > > Well, first of all, the Exabyte 8mm drives ain't nothing but glorified > > VCRs with computer-controlled rewind/fast-forward/etc. > > that's not true at all, they use almost completely different hardware. > while 8mm video does analog recording and thus has e.g. no read-after-write > check, 8mm exabytes do true digital recording and they have > read-after-write after write heads (even for the first EXB8200 drive) > which makes even the video head somewhat different, not to mention > the read/wirte amplifier and all the other electronics. >
Point taken. I wasn't being serious; I need to learn to put smileys in when something can possibly be misunderstood.
-hpa
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