FastBack[1] is a software application developed in the late 1980s and early 1990s for backing up IBM PC and Macintosh computers. It was originally written by Fifth Generation Systems, a company located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.[2] When the company wanted to expand into the Apple market they purchased and rebranded a product from TouchStone Software Corporation.
The original FastBack was unique in the industry in that it was able to read from a computer hard drive and write to the floppy drive simultaneously using the full capability of the dual-channel DMA chip found in personal computers of that time. When combined with compression techniques[2] and a proprietary disk format that stored 720KB of data on each 360KB 5¼-inch floppy disk (only in 1.2MB drives), this made FastBack one of the fastest PC backup programs at the time.[3]
^Lewis, Peter H. (June 7, 1988). "Backup Copy Of Hard Disk Averts Loss". The New York Times. Retrieved September 14, 2020.
^ abLewis, Peter H. (July 25, 1989). "Personal Computers - Of Inevitable Sudden Death And Backing Up Your Files". The New York Times. Retrieved September 14, 2020.
^"The Great Floppy Backup Shoot-Out". December 21, 2015. Archived from the original on 2015-03-15. Retrieved September 14, 2020. Fastest backup: Fastback v5.13 (1984)
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