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VHS video cassettes could be used as tape drives! There was this, from the same era: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArVid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArVid A
by fractallyte 6mo ago
VHS video cassettes could be used as tape drives!
There was this, from the same era: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArVid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArVid
And I have this for my Amiga, also same era: http://www.hugolyppens.com/VBS.html http://www.hugolyppens.com/VBS.html
- TMWNN 6mo agoHow reliable did you find VBS?
- fractallyte 6mo agoUnfortunately, I never got around to using it! I bought it with high hopes, but my Zip disks turned out to be so convenient and spacious that the VHS-backup need never arose. That said, it's not too late... I still have my Amiga system in storage, and a VHS recorder.
- TMWNN 6mo ago>I bought it with high hopes, but my Zip disks turned out to be so convenient and spacious that the VHS-backup need never arose. It's good to hear, in retrospect, that you were able to use a storage medium that did not even exist when Amiga were discontinued. Which type of interface for the Zip drive works with it? (It occurs to me that Zip disks presumably offer the great virtue, otherwise absent as I understand it for Amigans, of PC compatibility.)
- fractallyte 6mo agoAn Amiga 4000T with a SCSI interface, and the SCSI Zip drive worked perfectly with it – I could even boot the Amiga from a Zip disk! However, since the Zip disks were formatted with an Amiga file system – I used PFS3 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_File_System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_File_System) – they couldn't be used with a PC. I'm curious whether the data is still readable, after 30 years...