LGR Oddware - Danmere Backer VHS Hard Drive Backup System
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Date: 2022-04-14
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Peter
A new one on you? Haha, you are too young!
There is this computer fair in Hannover, Germany. In the late 80s, there was a system by Grundig, built into a desk. There were a computer and storage for tapes, lots of tapes, and a couple VHS recorders. This was a system to store unbelievable amounts of data, for the day.
The system got a lot of attention, but due to the multi-ten-thousands Deutschmark, only larger companies would be potential customers.
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A new one on you? Haha, you are too young!
There is this computer fair in Hannover, Germany. In the late 80s, there was a system by Grundig, built into a desk. There were a computer and storage for tapes, lots of tapes, and a couple VHS recorders. This was a system to store unbelievable amounts of data, for the day.
The system got a lot of attention, but due to the multi-ten-thousands Deutschmark, only larger companies would be potential customers.
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dacypher22
It would have been interesting if something like this decoding hardware had been available and cheap back in the early 80's and smaller TV stations had switched over to providing software over broadcast TV overnights. You set up your computer, connect an antenna to the decoder and then go to bed. In the morning you wake up and see what kind of odd files they pushed out. The more I think about it, the more I think that would have been a lot of fun!
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It would have been interesting if something like this decoding hardware had been available and cheap back in the early 80's and smaller TV stations had switched over to providing software over broadcast TV overnights. You set up your computer, connect an antenna to the decoder and then go to bed. In the morning you wake up and see what kind of odd files they pushed out. The more I think about it, the more I think that would have been a lot of fun!
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Joel
Absolute perfect example of oddware. Writing and reading files to tape always makes me think of the mid 20th century IBM mainframes, just a cool concept plain and simple. I imagine this could have been a viable product were it not for the proliferation of cheap CD, DVD, zip, HDD media in the late 90's and early 2000s. If this had come out in the mid 80's instead of the mid 90's i think it would have been a bigger hit.
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Absolute perfect example of oddware. Writing and reading files to tape always makes me think of the mid 20th century IBM mainframes, just a cool concept plain and simple. I imagine this could have been a viable product were it not for the proliferation of cheap CD, DVD, zip, HDD media in the late 90's and early 2000s. If this had come out in the mid 80's instead of the mid 90's i think it would have been a bigger hit.
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Flickstro
A little-known fact I picked up in school is that spooled tape of all kinds comes with a small bit of lubricant at the head of it in order to ease tension on the headers for recording/playback. I don't know if it helps in this particular case, but fast forwarding to the end and rewinding back before recording will help both the tape and the machine for most of its ordinary functions.
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A little-known fact I picked up in school is that spooled tape of all kinds comes with a small bit of lubricant at the head of it in order to ease tension on the headers for recording/playback. I don't know if it helps in this particular case, but fast forwarding to the end and rewinding back before recording will help both the tape and the machine for most of its ordinary functions.
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david
in the early nineties one of the Amiga magazines printed plans for building your own back up your hard drive to VHS system, and provided a shareware backup application on the cover disk. it used the RGB out which converted the signal to composite and the parallel port, from memory it cost me about twenty Australian dollars to make it, it was slow and cumbersome, but it did work
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in the early nineties one of the Amiga magazines printed plans for building your own back up your hard drive to VHS system, and provided a shareware backup application on the cover disk. it used the RGB out which converted the signal to composite and the parallel port, from memory it cost me about twenty Australian dollars to make it, it was slow and cumbersome, but it did work
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bird
You know I wonder how this system would have fared if it was released at a time when it could utilise D-VHS, that not widely known format specification that defined digital VHS tapes with 50GB of storage capacity. I think the system could have been a bit more useful at the time if it could have used those and it could have helped along the sales of D-VHS media in general.
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You know I wonder how this system would have fared if it was released at a time when it could utilise D-VHS, that not widely known format specification that defined digital VHS tapes with 50GB of storage capacity. I think the system could have been a bit more useful at the time if it could have used those and it could have helped along the sales of D-VHS media in general.
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icarusi
I still have one of these (or similar) somewhere. I kept using the s/w, as it was good for ID quickly of large files on a whole drive, so easier to see which would free up most space when deleted, and also large forgotten files inside nested folders. I now use Treesize (free) for this purpose. After a scan, just click on the 'size' column to find the big files.
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I still have one of these (or similar) somewhere. I kept using the s/w, as it was good for ID quickly of large files on a whole drive, so easier to see which would free up most space when deleted, and also large forgotten files inside nested folders. I now use Treesize (free) for this purpose. After a scan, just click on the 'size' column to find the big files.
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Hello
So now I'd like to see if it's good enough to store the expected 23-25 GB in SD video mode onto a single-layer Blu-ray disc if you can find a BD recorder that lets you store SD video at that fraction of the space that it takes to store HD. This also makes me wonder which files would be missing if you edited out chunks of video at specific times in the stream.
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So now I'd like to see if it's good enough to store the expected 23-25 GB in SD video mode onto a single-layer Blu-ray disc if you can find a BD recorder that lets you store SD video at that fraction of the space that it takes to store HD. This also makes me wonder which files would be missing if you edited out chunks of video at specific times in the stream.
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AutoFox1
I'm surprised that none of the major VCR manufacturers ever tried to push something like this. Maybe, like, a direct remote control hookup that runs into a PC card so that you don't have to hit play, stop, rewind etc by hand? Judging by the CompuLink remote system built into my 1980s JVC stereo gear, I doubt it would have been all that hard to implement.
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I'm surprised that none of the major VCR manufacturers ever tried to push something like this. Maybe, like, a direct remote control hookup that runs into a PC card so that you don't have to hit play, stop, rewind etc by hand? Judging by the CompuLink remote system built into my 1980s JVC stereo gear, I doubt it would have been all that hard to implement.
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Krzysztof
Oh my, I am so happy that I found this video! I had found and bought one of Danmere Backer in a good condition, but I don't have floppy with software and I can't find it anywhere in Internet - I saw that you have one. Could You help me compress files from floppy to zip and send it to my e-mail adress?
Thank You so much and greetings from Poland -
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Oh my, I am so happy that I found this video! I had found and bought one of Danmere Backer in a good condition, but I don't have floppy with software and I can't find it anywhere in Internet - I saw that you have one. Could You help me compress files from floppy to zip and send it to my e-mail adress?
Thank You so much and greetings from Poland -
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