From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Feb 28 20: 1: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from finch-post-11.mail.demon.net (finch-post-11.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AFCD37B417 for ; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 20:01:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from stade.demon.co.uk ([158.152.29.164] helo=access2.hanley.stade.co.uk) by finch-post-11.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 16geED-000PGC-0B for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Fri, 01 Mar 2002 04:01:05 +0000 Received: from titus.hanley.stade.co.uk (titus [192.168.1.5]) by access2.hanley.stade.co.uk (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g2140uI04425 for ; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 04:00:56 GMT (envelope-from aw1@titus.hanley.stade.co.uk) Received: (from aw1@localhost) by titus.hanley.stade.co.uk (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g213ua822143 for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 03:56:36 GMT (envelope-from aw1) Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 03:56:36 +0000 From: Adrian Wontroba To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Dectapes (was Re: First test of GPL in court) Message-ID: <20020301035636.C20774@titus.hanley.stade.co.uk> Reply-To: aw1@stade.co.uk Mail-Followup-To: Adrian Wontroba , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org References: <20020227133748.C64839@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20020227054428.M12253@rain.macguire.net> <20020227135103.E64839@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20020227061336.N12253@rain.macguire.net> <20020227142303.A65635@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <15484.63760.663944.125557@guru.mired.org> <20020227163501.A66574@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <15485.4354.561280.729573@guru.mired.org> <20020228020025.B65094@titus.hanley.stade.co.uk> <15485.40778.433515.165006@guru.mired.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <15485.40778.433515.165006@guru.mired.org>; from mwm-dated-1015297738.0e4ea3@mired.org on Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 09:08:58PM -0600 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE Organization: Yes, I need some of that. X-Phone: +(44) 1782 207338 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 09:08:58PM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: > Hey, I remember those. I'm still trying to find someone who's got a > working Dectape (the open real kind, not the later ones) so I can see > if there's anything interesting on the last backup of my v6 directory. Sorry, I've not seen a Dectape since the mid 70s. They were an interesting concept - a block addressable tape device, on which you could do random access, and thus use it like a s.l.o.w. disk. I had a lot of fun with PS8 and Dectapes on a PDP8. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message