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- From: jones@pyrite.cs.uiowa.edu (Douglas W. Jones,201H MLH,3193350740,3193382879)
- Subject: Re: Report of 8/E for sale
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- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.202852.8288@news.uiowa.edu>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 20:28:52 GMT
- References: <1992Nov18.162707.8408@i88.isc.com>
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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
-