[TUHS] Someone wants to use an exabyte

[Rico Pajarola]

On Sun, Nov 24, 2019 at 2:53 PM Larry McVoy <lm at mcvoy.com> wrote:

> Good luck with that.  I had a 4/470 that had an exabyte, wheeled it out of
> building 5 at Sun and into building 9 at SGI and the tapes wouldn't read
> back.
>
We called them buffered dev-nulls.

TBH, that's what we called most tapes except for DLTs.



> On Sun, Nov 24, 2019 at 05:39:30PM -0500, Richard Salz wrote:
> > Historically important he says. The guy had creds.
> > https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1198706617967095809?s=19
>
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> Larry McVoy                  lm at mcvoy.com
> http://www.mcvoy.com/lm
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