From: emanuel stiebler <emu@e-bbes.com>
To: Kevin Bowling <kevin.bowling@kev009.com>,
Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Setting up an X Development Environment for Mac OS
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2023 06:07:27 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b6a29a15-c9ba-40e7-0778-786d03c0814b@e-bbes.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK7dMtCGLg47RdZ5n028t9OA=A_=K+twRpZYnRcsocLm9PdQMg@mail.gmail.com>
On 2023-01-28 19:31, Kevin Bowling wrote:
> I'm not sure about 8mm tape specifically but the Exabyte drives that
> were common on 1990s UNIX systems failed a lot.
>
> There was a large proliferation of tape technology in the 1980s and
> 1990s, many of them not great in any dimension.
>
> DLT, LTO, and especially the "enterprise" ranges from StorageTek or
> IBM from any time period are all extremely reliable.
The problem with the 4mm and 8mm was, they had this stupid rotating head
(heli scan?), which was a pain in the neck.
It was difficult to adjust, so you better read/wrote your tapes only
Put a lot of mechanical stress on the tape
Tape was thin, to have more capacity
After all, it was consumer stuff, ported to the wrong environment
9track, DLT work differently, that why we still have a chance to read
them :)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-01-29 11:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-01-25 20:38 Noel Chiappa
2023-01-25 21:25 ` Clem Cole
2023-01-26 6:30 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2023-01-26 10:56 ` Ralph Corderoy
2023-01-26 12:01 ` arnold
2023-01-26 13:25 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2023-01-26 15:28 ` [TUHS] " josh
2023-01-26 16:07 ` [TUHS] " segaloco via TUHS
2023-01-26 16:48 ` emanuel stiebler
2023-01-26 21:19 ` segaloco via TUHS
2023-01-26 22:51 ` Andy Kosela
2023-01-27 0:48 ` segaloco via TUHS
2023-01-27 4:07 ` Will Senn
2023-01-27 14:08 ` Chet Ramey
2023-01-27 14:49 ` Ron Natalie
2023-01-27 15:53 ` Dan Cross
2023-01-27 16:12 ` [TUHS] NEXTSTEP 486 [was " Charles H Sauer (he/him)
2023-01-27 14:17 ` [TUHS] " Ralph Corderoy
2023-01-27 13:56 ` Ralph Corderoy
2023-01-27 14:54 ` Ron Natalie
2023-01-27 16:10 ` Larry McVoy
2023-01-28 22:15 ` Dave Horsfall
2023-01-29 0:31 ` Kevin Bowling
2023-01-29 11:07 ` emanuel stiebler [this message]
2023-01-27 21:42 ` Tom Perrine
2023-01-28 2:18 ` Larry McVoy
2023-01-28 2:49 ` Tom Perrine
2023-01-26 6:32 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2023-01-26 9:45 ` emanuel stiebler via TUHS
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2023-01-25 1:46 [TUHS] " Will Senn
2023-01-25 7:45 ` [TUHS] " segaloco via TUHS
2023-01-25 8:00 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2023-01-25 16:41 ` Rich Salz
2023-01-25 19:53 ` Theodore Ts'o
2023-01-25 20:04 ` Dan Cross
2023-01-25 20:23 ` Larry McVoy
2023-01-25 20:27 ` Chet Ramey
2023-01-27 4:49 ` Theodore Ts'o
2023-01-27 18:05 ` Henry Mensch
2023-01-27 18:24 ` Charles H Sauer (he/him)
2023-01-26 13:17 ` Marc Donner
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