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.
next prev parent 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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