From: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] [simh] 2bsd tarball
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2020 09:41:33 +1000 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2008120938090.10877@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAD2gp_RmmGAQ_A56G85dpZ6t8XPwpKS8qD1VytZ1Bg0aHGtrYg@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, 29 Jul 2020, John Cowan wrote:
> When I talk about DECtape in my capacity as the local old fart, i
> describe it as "a disk with one track and about 1500 small sectors that
> spins ve-ry ve-ry slow-ly..
According to an ex-boss of mine, a demonstration of the DECtape's
reliability was to blow cigarette smoke over the heads when the tape was
moving (this was back when smoking was socially acceptable, if not
actually encouraged).
-- Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-11 23:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-28 23:03 [TUHS] " Will Senn
2020-07-29 0:09 ` Warner Losh
2020-07-29 0:19 ` Clem Cole
2020-07-29 0:45 ` Will Senn
2020-07-29 0:46 ` Will Senn
2020-07-29 0:21 ` Clem Cole
2020-07-29 9:50 ` [TUHS] [simh] " Johnny Billquist
2020-07-29 13:52 ` John Cowan
2020-07-29 14:30 ` Johnny Billquist
2020-08-11 23:41 ` Dave Horsfall [this message]
[not found] ` <5A12E0BB-4FFF-4C3E-B486-D4E852FAA97F@comcast.net>
2020-07-29 14:29 ` Johnny Billquist
2020-08-11 23:55 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-07-29 13:42 ` [TUHS] 2bsd tarball -> pdtar, with a side of uuslave John Gilmore
2020-07-29 15:40 ` Clem Cole
2020-07-29 19:34 ` Richard Salz
2020-07-29 19:42 ` Warner Losh
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