From: Jonathan Lundell <jlundell@pobox.com>
To: landley@webofficenow.com, <asmith@14inverleith.freeserve.co.uk>,
Kai Henningsen <kaih@khms.westfalen.de>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
<penguicon-comphist@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [comphist] Re: Microsoft and Xenix.
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 13:49:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <p0510030fb75ea3bda183@[207.213.214.37]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <01062610445301.12583@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0106252104530.18127-100000@vtrl22.vtrl.co.uk> <01062610445301.12583@localhost.localdomain>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-06-26 20:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-06-24 2:41 Wayne.Brown
2001-06-24 3:07 ` Mike Castle
2001-06-24 14:44 ` Rob Landley
2001-06-25 15:13 ` Joel Jaeggli
2001-06-25 14:17 ` Rob Landley
2001-06-25 19:57 ` Erik Mouw
2001-06-27 2:10 ` Steve Underwood
2001-06-25 19:30 ` Kai Henningsen
2001-06-25 20:19 ` asmith
2001-06-26 14:44 ` [comphist] " Rob Landley
2001-06-26 20:52 ` Alan Cox
2001-06-26 21:21 ` Michael Meissner
2001-06-27 13:26 ` Jesse Pollard
2001-06-27 23:35 ` [OT] " Guest section DW
2001-06-26 20:49 ` Jonathan Lundell [this message]
2001-06-24 14:32 ` Rob Landley
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