Re: University credentials used by third parties

["David L. Wasley" <dlwasley () EARTHLINK NET>]

Back in th early 70's, our "data acquisition system" (NOVA + custom 
built instrumentation) exported data on paper tape (via an ASR33). 
We "upgraded" to mag tape and I was explaining to one of the "older" 
civil engineering professors how this would work.  He complained "but 
I can't see my data!"  So I pulled out my "tape developer" and showed 
him the fine lines of magnetization on the tape.  He was somewhat 
mollified but I doubt he was ever very happy about it.

        David
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At 11:38 AM -0400 on 8/23/10, Joel Rosenblatt wrote:

> That reminded me of the days of using "tape developer" (very fine 
> ground up iron powder in a alcohol solution) to find errors on 9 
> track tapes .. talk about tedious :-)
>
> Joel
>
> --On Monday, August 23, 2010 11:33 AM -0400 Pete Hickey 
> <pete () SHADOWS UOTTAWA CA> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 05:40:09PM -0600, Ozzie Paez wrote:
> >
> > > .....  I actually kept several racks of Cisco firewalls, switches and
> > > routers just so that I could show them to some of the newer guys that came
> > > up after this type of equipment shrunk down to the size of a Kleenex box. o
> >
> > I have a couple of IBM 2314 disk packs in my shed... waiting for some
> > grandchildren to show them to.
> >
> > And... in keeping with the mandate of this group.... I'd bet anything
> > that they were never cleaned and still have their data on them.
> >
> > Anyone have something that reads them (fater than iron and a microscope)
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Pete Hickey
> > The University of Ottawa           A picture is worth a thousand words
> > Ottawa, Ontario                      but takes up more disk space.
> > Canada
>
>
>
> Joel Rosenblatt, Manager Network & Computer Security
> Columbia Information Security Office (CISO)
> Columbia University, 612 W 115th Street, NY, NY 10025 / 212 854 3033
> http://www.columbia.edu/~joel