From: Rico Pajarola <rp@servium.ch>
To: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Someone wants to use an exabyte
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2019 14:58:50 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACwAiQ=ujdOwXAxKSuD9Tg5PAr2Hj2A0+LNRh42mAe-2VBLmVQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191124225239.GG18200@mcvoy.com>
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On Sun, Nov 24, 2019 at 2:53 PM Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com> wrote:
> Good luck with that. I had a 4/470 that had an exabyte, wheeled it out of
> building 5 at Sun and into building 9 at SGI and the tapes wouldn't read
> back.
>
We called them buffered dev-nulls.
TBH, that's what we called most tapes except for DLTs.
> On Sun, Nov 24, 2019 at 05:39:30PM -0500, Richard Salz wrote:
> > Historically important he says. The guy had creds.
> > https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1198706617967095809?s=19
>
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> Larry McVoy lm at mcvoy.com
> http://www.mcvoy.com/lm
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-11-24 22:59 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 [this message]
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
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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