Clem Cole scripsit:

> ​Truth is folks built systems that swapped to floppies (and cassette tape
> et al) in those days.  

Indeed, the PDP-8 system I cut my teeth on swapped (infrequently) to DECtape,
which is essentially a floppy drive without random access.

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