From: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa)
Subject: [TUHS] [OT] VAXen, my children, just don't belong some places
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2016 09:42:21 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161020134221.B207818C098@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> (raw)
> From: Random832
> Tapes are still bigger than disks, to my understanding.
Makes sense. There's a lot more surface area on a tape than on a disk. Yes,
mechanical considerations mean you can pack the bits on a disk in more
densely, but not enough to offset the much greater surface area.
Noel
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2016-10-20 13:42 Noel Chiappa [this message]
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2016-10-18 23:05 Dave Horsfall
2016-10-19 3:35 ` Andy Kosela
2016-10-19 11:49 ` Dan Cross
2016-10-20 1:18 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-10-20 5:24 ` Random832
2016-10-20 5:46 ` Dave Horsfall
2016-10-20 6:30 ` Cory Smelosky
2016-10-20 7:06 ` Peter Jeremy
2016-10-20 7:44 ` arnold
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