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This article is from the storage FAQ part1, by Rodney D. Van Meter with numerous contributions by others.

5.14 VCR VHS

    This appeared recently in the newsgroup, but I don't know anything
about it. This is the widget that takes data in one end and spits out
a video signal that you can pipe into your home VCR to use your it for
data storage. It's only $350, but, for those of us in the U.S. and
Japan, it doesn't work for NTSC VCRs.

Subject: VTS Tech Specifications for Users
Date: Mon Nov 28 09:24:29 PST 1994
X-Gateway: notes@igc.apc.org

Having received a lot of questions from different users of VTS 1020,
I'd like to answer them giving short specifications of this unit.
1. CAPACITY: 4 GB Compressed / 2 GB Uncompressed on one E-180 cassette.
             The amount of data grows according to the tape length.
2. SPEED:    100 KB/sec for PC/AT 286-16 Mhz
             200 KB/sec for PC/AT 386-33 Mhz etc.
3. SOFTWARE: The current version is for DOS. Windows support-DOS Window.
             Read/Write verification is provided.
4. VIDEO:    PAL/SECAM System, VHS Tape

Also from the newsgroup a while back:

We, AT Systems Inc., are distributors of VCR cassete backup kits
(including PC board and software package with 1 year warranty and 2
weeks money back policy), please send all inquiries to my e-mail
address ats@rctl.msk.su. (Michael V. Kuzmin, ats@rctl.msk.su, 4/95)

And more recently:

Check out a company call Cybernetics in Yorktown, Virginia.  They 
put Sony VCR drives in their own enclosures for backup devices.  
Contact Thomas Dougherty at (804) 833-9000. (Mike Rothenberg,
70612.2027@compuserve.com, 1996/4/1)
    

 

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