From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 26 Jun 2001 16:52:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 26 Jun 2001 16:52:37 -0400 Received: from [207.213.212.4] ([207.213.212.4]:5113 "EHLO geos.coastside.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 26 Jun 2001 16:52:27 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <01062610445301.12583@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <01062610445301.12583@localhost.localdomain> Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 13:49:40 -0700 To: landley@webofficenow.com, , Kai Henningsen From: Jonathan Lundell Subject: Re: [comphist] Re: Microsoft and Xenix. Cc: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.