Date   : Wed, 14 Nov 1990 17:50:37 GMT
From   : mojo!hsu@mimsy.umd.edu (Dagwood splits the Atom)
Subject: Early microcomputer networks

In article <1990Nov13.210141.28709@en.ecn.purdue.edu> milton@en.ecn.purdue.edu
(Milton D Miller) writes:
>In article <JIM.90Nov12221608@baroque.Stanford.EDU> jim@baroque.Stanford.EDU
(James Helman) writes:
>>I remember people having Corvus disk systems on their Apple II's
>>around 1980.
>Well, let's see what I can rember.  We had one of these installed in
>high school...  The lab was installed in 1982; I graduated in 1986.
...
>What I rember was 3 stackable boxes about 9x15" of various heights,
>one was the network interface (2-3" high), one was the VCR backup
>attachment (one board in a 1" case), and the disk itself

Sounds like a Corvus Constellation setup with the Corvus Mirror VCR backup
device.  Who says videotape data storage is a new idea :-)

Someone actually bought a Mirror?  Wow.

-dave

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