[TUHS] Determining what was on a tape back in the day
Dave Horsfall
dave at horsfall.org
Mon Nov 20 08:00:28 AEST 2017
On Sun, 19 Nov 2017, Ron Natalie wrote:
> You could actually mkfs a DECtape and mount it but the system would
> stall while rewinding to write the superblock.
The early Sun boxes used to hang when rewinding the cartridge tape,
because the controller didn't release the Multibus; the stingy Lionel
Singer used to sell the 3/50 as cheap servers...
And you haven't lived until just for fun you put a file system onto a
9-track tape and ran FSCK on it.
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