Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 03:56:36 +0000 From: Adrian Wontroba <aw1@stade.co.uk> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Dectapes (was Re: First test of GPL in court) Message-ID: <20020301035636.C20774@titus.hanley.stade.co.uk> 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 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>
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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
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