From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Feb 28 20:21:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mired.org (dsl-64-192-6-133.telocity.com [64.192.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9117837B41B for ; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 20:20:43 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 1264 invoked by uid 100); 1 Mar 2002 04:20:37 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15487.405.365982.645106@guru.mired.org> Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 22:20:37 -0600 To: aw1@stade.co.uk Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dectapes (was Re: First test of GPL in court) In-Reply-To: <20020301035636.C20774@titus.hanley.stade.co.uk> 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> <20020301035636.C20774@titus.hanley.stade.co.uk> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: "Mike Meyer" X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.46 (Python 2.2; freebsd-4.5-STABLE-i386) 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 Adrian Wontroba types: > 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. I actually know someone who claims to have one working, and is trying to get a PDP-11 close enough to it to use. > 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. Yup. They were bootable, too, so you could put / on them. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message