Homebrew Drum Computer (magnetic heads)

Dennis Boone drb at msu.edu
Wed Dec 19 17:23:39 CST 2007


 > Did any company ever actually produce a storage product that used
 > 8-track carts (or indeed broadcast carts)?  Did it work?

There were commercial systems based on VHS decks, good for a couple of
GB per tape.  Prime actually sold them briefly, iirc.  The company I
worked for at the time sold a few such systems to our customers, and
made them work.  I recall video tape quality being critical.

De


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