Sunday, 11 February 2024

ArVid: how Russians squeezed 4 hard drives into one VHS tape in the 90s

quote [ You hand over 80 American Dollars. Yevgeni slides out a little warranty card from inside the ArVid package, writes in the date of purchase and signs it. You step out of that store into the crisp air of a 1995 Moscow day. A proud owner of an ArVid 1030. ]

Interesting concept and a lot of anecdotes on why this thrived under 90s circumstances. There's even a making-of.
[SFW] [science & technology] [+3 Insightful]
[by Paracetamol@5:03pmGMT]

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stv179 said @ 5:28pm GMT on 11th Feb [Score:1 Original]
The Amiga Video Backup System (~500 MB in 1993)
http://hugolyppens.com/VBS.html
stv179 said @ 5:26pm GMT on 11th Feb
Remembering similar systems for the Amiga 500, probably even earlier than Arvid .. the storage size was indeed phenomenal.
damnit said @ 7:06pm GMT on 12th Feb
Must have jerked off 4 dudes, tip to tip.

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