Where have you been? I worked for a company that made VHS recorders for the Government (military, etc) that stored data it obtained from various devices filtered through a multiplexer. The heads were specially made (we had one guy assemble them in the back room -- painstaking work!) but the other parts were straight out of panasonic or whoever we could get. So, the answer is -- sort of -- but we were dealing with the government here. The problem we constantly had was that people were constantly thinking that because it was VHS meant that they could go out to their local Wally World and pick up a 10 pack of T120s and put them in. Problem with that is the VHS tapes you buy at the supermarket are so dirty and such poor quality that they stripped the data heads. So, I don't know how good the 8 mm tapes would be unless you used tapes intended for data.
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Where have you been? I worked for a company that made VHS recorders for the Government (military, etc) that stored data it obtained from various devices filtered through a multiplexer. The heads were specially made (we had one guy assemble them in the back room -- painstaking work!) but the other parts were straight out of panasonic or whoever we could get. So, the answer is -- sort of -- but we were dealing with the government here. The problem we constantly had was that people were constantly thinking that because it was VHS meant that they could go out to their local Wally World and pick up a 10 pack of T120s and put them in. Problem with that is the VHS tapes you buy at the supermarket are so dirty and such poor quality that they stripped the data heads. So, I don't know how good the 8 mm tapes would be unless you used tapes intended for data.