[olug] OT: But funny

[Will Langford]

On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 7:32 PM, T. J. Brumfield <enderandrew at gmail.com>wrote:

> http://www.geekvintage.com/images/commodore-64-1530-datasette.jpg
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on our nec 8086 we just hooked up a regular cassette deck to the back of the
keyboard.... although we had an excess of floppies hanging around from a
warehouse that dumped a bunch of their inventory cheaply... so other than
the amusement of listening to the recordings on a regular stereo once or
twice...

and of course everyone here has undoubtedly taken a pair of scissors or a
xacto to a 5.25" .... or pieces of tape ... etc :)

Not really 'vintage' -- but did anyone ever have one of those VHS based data
archival things ?  You'd basically just feed it off the shelf standard VHS
tapes.  It was marketed as a poor mans backup solution... but I think had
failings due to variable quality of VHS tapes.