Comment by npteljes
5 years ago
Very similar to the sound of the Commodore data tapes when inserted to a regular cassette player. Tried it as a kid, I was convinced I broke something.
Random example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVsY9PVIKsQ
5 years ago
Very similar to the sound of the Commodore data tapes when inserted to a regular cassette player. Tried it as a kid, I was convinced I broke something.
Random example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVsY9PVIKsQ
Dual cassete players were great for copying programs/games!
Also reminds me of Amiga's Video Backup System which made use of Amiga's video processing capabilities to output data and read from VHS tapes. That was a slow process but could store large amounts of data, and you just needed a VCR.
> That was a slow process but could store large amounts of data...
I’d note that as then-large amounts of data.
“520MB will fit on a 4-hour tape!”
Danmere Backer was similar for PCs, with custom hardware; they got up to 4 GB a tape.
And also this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArVid