Tape Imaging

Chuck Guzis cclist at sydex.com
Fri Aug 12 14:06:45 CDT 2016


On 08/12/2016 11:19 AM, Paul Koning wrote:

> I think some drives can handle mid-tape density changes.  It may even
> have been done by DEC, though I may be confusing that with the odd
> case of RSTS distribution tapes which started out with a DOS-11 label
> and then switched to ANSI labels.

Sure, especially the older ones. (Doing it on the 60x/65x CDC drives was
mostly a matter of pushing a button).   But what drive was used to write
this (DEC) tape is a mystery.

--Chuck



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