[cctalk] Re: Getting floppy images to/from real floppy disks.

On Thu, Jun 1, 2023 at 4:45 PM Alexander Schreiber via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote: I did see an actual 1970s station wagon loaded with RL02 cartridges once, pulled up at the dock of Baker Systems, the large Computer Science building at Ohio State (I suspect they were cleaning out a machine room and someone wanted the packs. Obviously I didn't know the right person that day). At Pole, we saved all the raw sensor data from AMANDA and later Ice Cube to DLT-format tapes (increasing the media/drive density over time) once a year, and it quickly grew to the point that we were stuffing several hundred TB of tape into an LC-130 to ship back to Wisconsin. It took 3-4 months to read last year's data once it arrived. So maybe not a 747 full of magtape, but still, a couple of cubic meters of DLT tape going 850 miles in 3.5 hours (Pole to McMurdo) is pretty decent bandwidth. The MCM->NZ leg was on a jet (C-17) so it upped the bandwidth, but on a larger plane so the effective capacity utilization dropped. -ethan