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- Newsgroups: alt.sys.pdp8
- Path: sparky!uunet!think.com!spdcc!eli
- From: eli@spdcc.com (Steve Elias)
- Subject: Re: Distribution of alt.sys.pdp8 improved
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.081220.4823@spdcc.com>
- Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA
- References: <1992Nov4.191738.14196@news.columbia.edu>
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 08:12:20 GMT
- Lines: 23
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- off to a terrifically technical start:
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- with dectape drives in cabinets mounted like so:
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- A B
- C D
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- run a tape from drive C to drive D, running over the heads
- heads of drive A and B.
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- next (on TS8) access drives C and D from two different terminals,
- cower behind console terminal waiting for the inevitable
- startrek-like explosion. but it never happens, because
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- dectapes are almost as strong as duct tape.
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- TAD,
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- /eli
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