Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 26 Jun 2001 13:49:40 -0700 | From | Jonathan Lundell <> | Subject | Re: [comphist] Re: Microsoft and Xenix. |
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At 10:44 AM -0400 2001-06-26, Rob Landley wrote: >"A quarter century of unix" mentions RK05 cartridges several times, but never >says much ABOUT them. > >Okay, so they're 2.4 megabyte removable cartridges? How big? Are they tapes >or disk packs? (I.E. can you run off of them or are they just storage?) I >know lots of early copies of unix were sent out from Bell Labs on RK05 >cartidges signed "love, ken"...
http://www.pdp8.net/rk05/rk05.shtml
>What was that big reel to reel tape they always show in movies, anyway?
The big-refrigerator-sized guys were generally attached to mainframes, IBM or otherwise. Here's a little info: http://www.digital-interact.co.uk/site/html/reference/media_9trk.html (but take it with a grain of salt; IBM surely didn't go to nine tracks because of ASCII!). -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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