On 01/19/2012 01:45 PM, Lew Wolfgang pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
On 01/19/2012 08:04 AM, James Knott wrote:
Mark Hounschell wrote:
Unfortunately you'll never find a pci floppy controller that can be used with the kernels /dev/fd0.
What about a 9 track mag tape drive? Gotta make use of that tar command. ;-)
This is OT but interesting, I actually ran into some engineers a few years out of college who had never heard of 9-track mag tape! I had to google some photos before they would believe it.
I'm dating myself, but I used to use 7-track tape too! It was 200 frames per inch. I remember diagnosing problems with something called Visimag. It was a volatile fluid containing suspended iron particles that the tape would be dipped in. You could then see not only the tracks, but even the individual frames on the tape!
BTW, is the opensuse offtopic list still in operation? I looked for the archives the other day but found only a dead link.
Regards, Lew
I used to deal with not only 9-track but also 9" disks and 300m data packs that required a 3x3x3.5" box for them to run in. FYI: The OT list has no archives, IIANM it never has. -- Ken Schneider SuSe since Version 5.2, June 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org