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Date:      Thu, 19 May 2022 19:51:43 +0100
From:      Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de>
Subject:   Re: Single User
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On Thu, 19 May 2022 20:24:49 +0200
Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> wrote:

> El día jueves, mayo 19, 2022 a las 01:43:09p. m. -0400, Valeri Galtsev
> escribió:
> 
> > I've seen these paper punch tapes too. Don't have them in my museum,
> > just 80 column punch cards. and 1/2 inch bobbin of tape. No bobbin tape
> > drive though...
> 
> I own such a tape too from my work in the Computer Center of the
> University Karl Marx in Leipzig, see here:
> 
> http://www.unixarea.de/simage20170404_071712335.jpg
> 
> It should boot on a /370 a UNIX system we worked with, but I can't find
> any /370. I invested some time into Herkules:

	Awesome - I once got involved in porting a large C++ package to a
unix environment running on a Fujitsu 370 clone (also to a big SPARC box, A
big Sequent and a big HPUX box) , I wonder if its the same unix, can't
bring to mind the name.

> and could the engine bring to boot. But have no tape drive to make from
> the physical tape a file :-(

	A small matter of engineering :)

https://hackaday.com/2022/04/16/paper-tape-reader-self-calibrates-speaks-usb/

-- 
Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>



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