3 Jul
2014
3 Jul
'14
12:54
On Wednesday, July 02, 2014 12:34:30 PM James Knott wrote:
On 07/02/2014 12:31 PM, upscope wrote:
That was about the time when mainframes had 8 track tape and the mini's were just getting 8 track. We also had 256KB head/track disks for main storage.
Those tapes were either 7 or 9 track, that is 6 or 8 bits plus parity. I also saw similar disk drives and paper tape. True -- openSUSE 13.1(Linux 3.11.10-17-desktop x86_64| Intel(R) Quad Core(TM) i5-4440 CPU @ 3.10GHz|8GB DDR3| GeForce 8400GS (NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-331.79)|KDE 4.13.2
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