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From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2016 05:23:25 +1000 (EST)
Subject: [TUHS] Algol68 vs. C at Bell Labs
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On Thu, 30 Jun 2016, John Cowan wrote:

> Indeed, the PDP-8 system I cut my teeth on swapped (infrequently) to 
> DECtape, which is essentially a floppy drive without random access.

DECtape was indeed random access; individual blocks could be addressed.

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