19 Jan
2012
19 Jan
'12
21:06
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. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org