From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Mt. Xinu
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 20:34:51 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <C94646C1-F370-4E76-97A8-E2D422EF9FD5@orthanc.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f794fe4b63a4583571970157ad6ebb7e@quanstro.net>
>> God I miss real hardware!
>
> i don't miss the stuff at all. quotacheck took 2 hours on a grand
> total
> of 1.5 G of disk. (assuming you didn't need to plug a terminal into
> the
> back of one of them and sacrifice a few cats to the compter gods.)
1) You had 1.5GB and you *needed* quotas?
2) You got the sign wrong; you sacrifice the gods to the cats.
> oh, and i just remembered. the weekly backup took about 8 hrs for 1.5G
> onto 9 track. we did have a VHS-tape based backup that was never
> completely
> trusted.
Nah, we dumped the big disk farm (three canaries and an eagle) onto
QIC 120 MB carts. On accounta that farm was hanging off the Sun
3/160. The 785 with the SI only spoke to lowly RA81s. A lot of
them, mind you.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-11 4:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-11 4:25 quanstro
2006-02-11 4:34 ` Lyndon Nerenberg [this message]
2006-02-11 16:26 ` Jack Johnson
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-02-15 2:00 dmr
2006-02-15 3:55 ` Jim McKie
2006-02-15 13:50 ` Marina Brown
2006-02-15 17:30 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-02-20 23:24 ` jmk
2006-02-15 1:57 dmr
2006-02-11 4:47 quanstro
2006-02-11 4:54 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2006-02-11 3:53 quanstro
2006-02-11 4:09 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2006-02-14 21:43 ` plan9
2006-02-11 10:25 ` Richard Miller
2006-02-11 3:40 [9fans] More 'Sam I am' quanstro
2006-02-11 3:46 ` [9fans] Mt. Xinu Lyndon Nerenberg
2006-02-14 21:42 ` plan9
2006-02-14 22:03 ` Brantley Coile
2006-02-14 22:48 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-02-15 4:39 ` Jim McKie
2006-02-15 6:29 ` Bruce Ellis
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