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Article #66Re: Report of 8/E for sale
From: Douglas W. Jones,201H MLH,319335...
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 20:28
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 20:28
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From article <1992Nov18.162707.8408@i88.isc.com>, by jeq@i88.isc.com (Jonathan E. Quist): >>< It has a 9 track, and a removable disk pack, plus some other > > Uh, wouldn't that have been a 7-track tape? Why? As far as I can tell, the only reason DEC put any kind of tape other than DECtape on a PDP-8 was for industry compatible data exchange. For example, there's a mothballed 8/I in the chemistry department here at Iowa that has a 9 track tape drive and a DF32 disk -- the machine runs an X-ray diffraction machine, and the data it collects is shipped on mag-tape to a larger computer for analysis. The disk just holds system software and is not involved in data collection. Doug Jones jones@cs.uiowa.edu
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