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From: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
To: Ron Natalie <ron@ronnatalie.com>
Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Setting up an X Development Environment for Mac OS
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2023 08:10:16 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230127161016.GF5393@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <em6af30c94-79af-4384-ac32-6c7258d1cd77@e41218a5.com>

On Fri, Jan 27, 2023 at 02:54:19PM +0000, Ron Natalie wrote:
> It included traditional 6250 9 track tapes and the
> then-popular exabyte 8mm (which was atrociously short lived).   

Ah, 8mm Exabyte, how I despise thee.

When I left Sun for SGI, Ken Okin graciously let me take my Sun 4/470,
that had 768MB of ram (crazy big for the time, I had that because I fixed
the VM system for big memory machines).  It also had an 8mm Exabyte and
a bunch of goodies on tape.

Wheeling that machine from my VW van into building 9 at SGI was enough
jiggling that *none* of my tapes were readable.

I've never seen a more fragile system than those exabyte.  By comparison,
the old SCSI QIC 150s, while small, were industructible, I think you
could have used the tapes as hammers and they'd still read.  Same thing
for 9 track.

  reply	other threads:[~2023-01-27 16:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-01-25 20:38 Noel Chiappa
2023-01-25 21:25 ` Clem Cole
2023-01-26  6:30   ` Lars Brinkhoff
2023-01-26 10:56     ` Ralph Corderoy
2023-01-26 12:01       ` arnold
2023-01-26 13:25         ` Lars Brinkhoff
2023-01-26 15:28       ` [TUHS] " josh
2023-01-26 16:07         ` [TUHS] " segaloco via TUHS
2023-01-26 16:48           ` emanuel stiebler
2023-01-26 21:19             ` segaloco via TUHS
2023-01-26 22:51               ` Andy Kosela
2023-01-27  0:48                 ` segaloco via TUHS
2023-01-27  4:07                   ` Will Senn
2023-01-27 14:08                     ` Chet Ramey
2023-01-27 14:49                       ` Ron Natalie
2023-01-27 15:53                     ` Dan Cross
2023-01-27 16:12                       ` [TUHS] NEXTSTEP 486 [was " Charles H Sauer (he/him)
2023-01-27 14:17             ` [TUHS] " Ralph Corderoy
2023-01-27 13:56         ` Ralph Corderoy
2023-01-27 14:54           ` Ron Natalie
2023-01-27 16:10             ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2023-01-28 22:15               ` Dave Horsfall
2023-01-29  0:31                 ` Kevin Bowling
2023-01-29 11:07                   ` emanuel stiebler
2023-01-27 21:42             ` Tom Perrine
2023-01-28  2:18               ` Larry McVoy
2023-01-28  2:49                 ` Tom Perrine
2023-01-26  6:32 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2023-01-26  9:45 ` emanuel stiebler via TUHS
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2023-01-25  1:46 [TUHS] " Will Senn
2023-01-25  7:45 ` [TUHS] " segaloco via TUHS
2023-01-25  8:00   ` Lars Brinkhoff
2023-01-25 16:41   ` Rich Salz
2023-01-25 19:53     ` Theodore Ts'o
2023-01-25 20:04       ` Dan Cross
2023-01-25 20:23         ` Larry McVoy
2023-01-25 20:27           ` Chet Ramey
2023-01-27  4:49         ` Theodore Ts'o
2023-01-27 18:05           ` Henry Mensch
2023-01-27 18:24             ` Charles H Sauer (he/him)
2023-01-26 13:17       ` Marc Donner

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