Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1188 mails)

[James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Per Jessen wrote:
> James Knott wrote:
>
> > Mark Hounschell wrote:
> > > > What about a 9 track mag tape drive? Gotta make use of that tar
> > > > command. ;-)
> > > I'm setting right next to a 9 track tape drive as I write this??? An
> > > HP-88780.
> > I was thinking more along the lines of something like this:
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9_track_tape
> Yeah, 1600 or 6250bpi - we had some of those in my first job, but they
> were very quickly replaced by IBM 3480.  Later on in life I worked for
> THE big tape company in the world.

We had a lot of 800 bpi drives and some 1600.  There were also some 6250 
IIRC, on newer systems.


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