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To: Marshall who wrote (26995)1/6/1998 8:09:00 PM
From: Klaus B. Biggers  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 33268
 
<I still have some brand new reels of it around somewhere, 9 track was it?>

9-track is fairly recent, no? Still have a few at home.

<One sure can't forget the "hard drives" of those days either - and many think removeable media was a recent development! >

Yup.. have a 40 MB RL02 at home with a bunch of fortran code on it that I wrote.. remember when executables had to be contiguous.. what a pain.

My favorite though was when they went to mylar for paper tape. We used to take the holes (bits) that were left and save them in garbage bags and then if someone tee'd us off, we'd fill the inside of their car with them through a slightly open window. Could never get them out because static electricity made them stick to everything.

-klaus



To: Marshall who wrote (26995)1/6/1998 8:11:00 PM
From: Franklin M. Humphreys  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 33268
 
No. One track down the middle of the tape. To check a suspected write failure one dropped a solution of metal powder onto the tape. After it dried the bits were visible as a dull mark on the less-dull background of the tape.
Frank


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