From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: henry.r.bent@gmail.com (Henry Bent) Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2017 13:17:28 -0500 Subject: [TUHS] Spell - was tmac: Move macro diagnostics away from `quotes' In-Reply-To: References: <20171124170131.DC6921F968@orac.inputplus.co.uk> Message-ID: On 24 November 2017 at 13:06, Nelson H. F. Beebe wrote: > P.S. In 1990, we filled a dumpster with 9-track tapes that we had to > abandon because of our move to new hardware that lacked such a drive, > and because our new disk system had insufficent disk space to preserve > their contents. > > I have since regretted that decision many times, because a lot of > stuff was lost forever. > > The maximum capacity of 6250-bpi 9-track tapes was about 100MB to > 170MB. A thousand such tapes would have needed just 100GB to 170GB, > an amount of space that I can now buy in Utah for about US$4 (based on > a local store offering of $94 for a 4TB USB-3 attached disk about the > size of a paperback thriller). > Sure, but how much would 170GB of storage have cost in 1990? And what would have been the cost to mirror it, or to back it up on to a more modern tape format? Was that data really worth tens of thousands of dollars? -Henry -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: