{"id":8715,"date":"2017-08-14T06:45:05","date_gmt":"2017-08-14T14:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2017\/08\/14\/news-2488\/"},"modified":"2017-08-14T06:45:05","modified_gmt":"2017-08-14T14:45:05","slug":"news-2488","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2017\/08\/14\/news-2488\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Save Files From a PC to a VHS Tape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/video-images.vice.com\/articles\/5991b0e6df918d06b1031238\/lede\/1502720337844-image3.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Credit to Author: Samantha  Cole| Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2017 14:41:03 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> In a detailed unboxing and demo of data backup to tape, YouTuber Lazy Game Reviews shows us how to move files from a Windows PC to a VHS tape just because he can. <\/p>\n<p> Like the <a href=\"https:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/vbmpnm\/this-ridiculous-laptop-cost-dollar20000-in-the-90s\">$20,000 monster-computer<\/a> he showed off recently, this is an example of 90s technology that was bulky, slightly clumsy, but ultimately worked.<\/p>\n<p> He uses the Danmere Backer tape backup system from the mid-&#8217;90s. At the time, this was an appealing method for creating data backups because of its low price (the Backer sold for around $60 and tapes cost about $2) and simplicity: Just plug it into a computer and VHS player, select what you want to copy over to the tape, and hit &#8220;record.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p> That&#8217;s the theory, at least. His attempt on a machine running Windows 95 failed. It took switching to another machine running Windows 3.1 to get it to write successfully to the tape.<\/p>\n<p> He took the whole disk drive\u2014around 80 MB of data\u2014and put it all on a goddamn VHS tape. Everything was preserved in the move, except for one small file that failed to write correctly. <\/p>\n<p>In case you&#8217;re wondering what Windows 3.1 files look like when they&#8217;re played back on a VCR, it&#8217;s mostly snow and static.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/j558k3\/how-to-save-files-from-a-pc-to-a-vhs-tape\" target=\"bwo\" >https:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/en_us\/rss<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/video-images.vice.com\/articles\/5991b0e6df918d06b1031238\/lede\/1502720337844-image3.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Credit to Author: Samantha  Cole| Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2017 14:41:03 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In ancient times, this was a cheap way to store data. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[10643,13328,10378],"tags":[11169,6270,13629,13630,13628,13631],"class_list":["post-8715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-independent","category-motherboard","category-security","tag-backup","tag-data","tag-storage","tag-vcr","tag-vhs","tag-windows-3-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}