Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 22:20:37 -0600 From: "Mike Meyer" <mwm-dated-1015388437.91f626@mired.org> To: aw1@stade.co.uk Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dectapes (was Re: First test of GPL in court) Message-ID: <15487.405.365982.645106@guru.mired.org> 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>
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Adrian Wontroba <aw1@stade.co.uk> 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. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> 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
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