10 Aug
2016
10 Aug
'16
11:34 a.m.
From: Chuck Guzis
Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2016 9:05 AM
On 08/10/2016 08:49 AM, Al Kossow wrote:
> Even though the file size of a picture of the
label may be bigger
> than the data itself, it is incredibly important, especially wgt
> provenance of the media (original disk, etc.)
In particular, the simple TAP format (and its ilk) say
nothing about
the original recorded density or even the length of the tape.
You'd think that might be important to someone.
It's too bad that the Time Capsule File System invented more than twenty
years ago at MIT never took off:
http://www.boogles.com/local/papers/tcfs-thesis/thesis.html
Rich
Rich Alderson
Vintage Computing Sr. Systems Engineer
Living Computer Museum
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Seattle, WA 98134
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