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fractallyte 2 days ago

VHS video cassettes could be used as tape drives!

There was this, from the same era: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArVid

And I have this for my Amiga, also same era: http://www.hugolyppens.com/VBS.html

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TMWNN 2 days ago | parent [-]

How reliable did you find VBS?

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fractallyte a day ago | parent [-]

Unfortunately, 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.

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TMWNN a day ago | parent [-]

>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 a day ago \| parent [-]
		An 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) – they couldn't be used with a PC. I'm curious whether the data is still readable, after 30 years...