I have two and they have found them to be spotting years later. I have them in an FreeBSD box with SCSI. On Sun, Nov 24, 2019 at 5:59 PM Rico Pajarola wrote: > > > On Sun, Nov 24, 2019 at 2:53 PM Larry McVoy wrote: > >> Good luck with that. I had a 4/470 that had an exabyte, wheeled it out of >> building 5 at Sun and into building 9 at SGI and the tapes wouldn't read >> back. >> > We called them buffered dev-nulls. > > TBH, that's what we called most tapes except for DLTs. > > > >> On Sun, Nov 24, 2019 at 05:39:30PM -0500, Richard Salz wrote: >> > Historically important he says. The guy had creds. >> > https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1198706617967095809?s=19 >> >> -- >> --- >> Larry McVoy lm at mcvoy.com >> http://www.mcvoy.com/lm >> > -- Sent from a handheld expect more typos than usual