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		senko on Nov 22, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Booting from a vinyl record 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.

pronoiac on Nov 23, 2020 [–]

> 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.

lstodd on Nov 23, 2020 | [–]

And also this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArVid

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