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From: Dennis Boone <drb@msu.edu>
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Someone wants to use an exabyte
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2019 17:46:48 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191125224649.3D1D125EDE8@yagi.h-net.msu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: (Your message of Tue, 26 Nov 2019 09:34:02 +1100.) <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.1911260931120.33542@aneurin.horsfall.org>

 > I'd be surprised if a 9-track was 100% readable 30 years on.

I've read quite a few of them, including some stored in crappy
conditions, without errors.  The stuff is pretty robust.  Sticky shed is
an issue, for which there are a number of palliative techniques.

De

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-11-25 22:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-11-24 22:39 Richard Salz
2019-11-24 22:50 ` Jim Capp
2019-11-24 22:52 ` Larry McVoy
2019-11-24 22:58   ` Rico Pajarola
2019-11-24 23:45     ` Clem Cole
2019-11-25  1:41   ` Dave Horsfall
2019-11-25  1:42     ` George Michaelson
2019-11-25  3:24       ` Larry McVoy
2019-11-25 17:07         ` Al Kossow
2019-11-25 17:40           ` Arthur Krewat
2019-11-25 17:45             ` Larry McVoy
2019-11-25 17:49               ` Jon Steinhart
2019-11-25 18:34               ` Arthur Krewat
2019-11-25 21:08                 ` John P. Linderman
2019-11-25 21:11                   ` ron
2019-11-25 21:30                     ` John P. Linderman
2019-11-25 21:38               ` Dave Horsfall
2019-11-25 18:29           ` Warner Losh
2019-11-25  3:29       ` Dave Horsfall
2019-11-25  3:34         ` [TUHS] Someone wants to use an exabyte [ really bulk erasing ] Jon Steinhart
2019-11-25  3:59           ` William Pechter
2019-11-25 15:25             ` Clem Cole
2019-11-25 17:13               ` Al Kossow
2019-11-25  4:53           ` Dave Horsfall
2019-11-25  3:36         ` [TUHS] Someone wants to use an exabyte Larry McVoy
2019-11-25 22:34           ` Dave Horsfall
2019-11-26  1:38             ` Lawrence Stewart
2019-11-25 22:46           ` Dennis Boone [this message]
2019-11-25 22:57           ` Henry Bent
2019-11-27 19:31   ` John Foust
2019-11-27 20:56     ` Arthur Krewat
2019-11-27 21:25       ` Dave Horsfall
2019-11-25 18:12 Norman Wilson

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