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Re: wet-behind-the-ears whippersnapper seeking advice on building a nationwide network
From: Joel jaeggli <joelja () bogus com>
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 21:32:41 -0700
given that as 729 maxes out at 800cpi there are probably slightly kinky ways to attack the problem, e.g. someone doing it with disk packs. http://chrisfenton.com/cray-1-digital-archeology/ there's still plenty of equipment that can wrap 1/2" tape around a spindle. On 9/19/11 21:14 , Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:
On Tue, 20 Sep 2011 05:32:04 +0200, Randy Bush said:you left out one connection via a chevy full of hollerith cards and the second a canoe full of 7 track tape in waterproof containers.Does anybody actually *have* a functional 7 track drive? I remember seeing a story on PBS (may have been a Nova episode) where they discussed the fact that NASA had literally thousands of 7 track tapes of telemetry data and no way to read them because their last 7 track drive had died, and IBM had no 7 track read/write heads left either... (I admit we still have a rack of 9-track tapes in ez-loader seals in our tape library, though we got rid of our last IBM 3420 about a decade ago. I think most of them are tapes we've lost track of ownership info, and don't dare dispose of in case the owner turns up.. ;)
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- Re: wet-behind-the-ears whippersnapper seeking advice on building a nationwide network Matthew Kaufman (Sep 19)
- Re: wet-behind-the-ears whippersnapper seeking advice on building a nationwide network Jay Ashworth (Sep 19)
- Re: wet-behind-the-ears whippersnapper seeking advice on building a nationwide network Robert Bonomi (Sep 20)
- Re: wet-behind-the-ears whippersnapper seeking advice on building a nationwide network Valdis . Kletnieks (Sep 19)
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- Re: wet-behind-the-ears whippersnapper seeking advice on building a nationwide network Joel jaeggli (Sep 19)
- Re: wet-behind-the-ears whippersnapper seeking advice on building a nationwide network Barton F Bruce (Sep 19)
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- Re: wet-behind-the-ears whippersnapper seeking advice on building a nationwide network Randy Bush (Sep 20)
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- Re: wet-behind-the-ears whippersnapper seeking advice on building a nationwide network Robert Bonomi (Sep 20)
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