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Re:What If Video Games Came on VHS? One Modder Is Finding Out by rogerdickey on Monday October 19, 2026 @09:46PM (#50160366)
"Historical computer backup systems (like ArVid) or audio formats (like Alesis ADAT) used standard VHS cassettes to store around 2 GB of digital computer data" (quote is not from the article)

I had no idea! Cool project

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Re:What If Video Games Came on VHS? One Modder Is Finding Out by kilpikaarna on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @12:24AM (#50161331)
It’s cool that the ArVid system has been ”rediscovered” in recent years. It seemed to be completely lost and forgotten about for a long time, despite my clear memories of seeing an ad for a system for VHS backups in a magazine in the late 90s.

Our computer had an 850MB hard drive at the time, 2GB of storage on a single tape was enormous and it really stuck in my mind.

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