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From: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Ultrix Tape: Block Size?
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2018 08:17:05 +1100 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.1810200813300.92151@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABH=_VS-joYBV-+goBJKQwEDYgKbVgsJDuPxCVq+94Rhk2XnNg@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, 16 Oct 2018, Paul Winalski wrote:

> The original DECtape was extremely reliable.  [...]

Indeed it was; a former boss used to tell the story of a salesman blowing 
cigarette smoke onto it (back when smoking was socially acceptable) and it 
just kept on working...

-- Dave

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-10-19 21:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-15 19:56 Warren Toomey
2018-10-15 21:00 ` Clem Cole
2018-10-15 21:01   ` Clem Cole
2018-10-15 21:34     ` Warner Losh
2018-10-16 16:57     ` Paul Winalski
2018-10-16 17:23       ` William Pechter
2018-10-16 17:34         ` Clem Cole
2018-10-16 17:34         ` Paul Winalski
     [not found]         ` <2658AACC-A451-4861-8CD8-F7E4BED8062A@comcast.net>
2018-10-17  6:14           ` [TUHS] TK50, was: " emanuel stiebler
2018-10-17 12:57             ` Tom Ivar Helbekkmo via TUHS
2018-10-18  7:48               ` Tom Ivar Helbekkmo via TUHS
2018-10-17 15:18             ` Clem Cole
2018-10-16 17:24       ` [TUHS] " Clem Cole
2018-10-19 21:17       ` Dave Horsfall [this message]
2018-10-15 21:52 ` Aaron Jackson

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