21 Sep
2004
21 Sep
'04
00:21
scsijon wrote:
At 04:46 PM 18/09/2004, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* James Knott
[09-18-04 12:55]: Carlos E. R. wrote:
On a related note, what do you use to backup such beasties? Tapes in mammoth size reels, perhaps? :-)
Just curious.
A *BIG* pile of floppies! ;-)
8" or 5-1/4" <grin>
just has to be one of the old IBM 78" record platter types. <big grin>
a whole 64k per side (had to turn over to use the second side though)
better than paper tape (backup for my old pdp-8)
Back in the mid '70s, someone (Interface Age Magazine?) tried storing computer programs, on those thin records, that could be included with magazines. IIRC, they used the "Kansas City" standard, for recording the data. Byte Magazine also used bar codes, to publish software.