Amiga Tape Backup
16-May-92 09:27:42
Sb: #57171-Amiga Tape Backup
Fm: Hilary Szymanowski 70035,510
To: Syndesis 76004,1763
You are correct John about the limited (and changing) Amiga marketplace,
plus having to put up with the foibles of COMMODORE. Many moons ago I saw
something in one journal which offered software which would allow a
conventional consumer VHS type VCR to be used as a backup unit. Think it
was PC related. The interlink was via one of the COMM ports (Serial). I
don't think there was any attempt at control of the VCR (RS422 and the
like).
As one can now buy VCR's around $200 – it would seem to be a possible way
to go. Would the software for the Amiga be any problem?
I am in the video production business which probably throws me in the
direction of high density recording via tape.
I think that WORDPERFECT found out the hard way in their Amiga efforts,
since terminated. No wonder that in the real world the poor machine is
thought of as a child's plaything! Great pity.
Regards…………. Hilary.