8 May
2007
8 May
'07
4:39 a.m.
On 08/05/2007 11:32, Jules Richardson wrote:
How common were drives which could read these? I suspect the answer is
"not very"! If anyone has one, how reliable was/is the media?
Fairly common, in their day, and they were SCSI (at least all the ones
I've come across are). Look for an Exabyte 8200. You weren't supposed
to use ordinary video tape, but lots of people did. They're slow but
reasonably reliable. The tapes would typically be written with tar or
occasionally cpio on a Unix system (and there's software to use them
with tar on an Acorn Archimedes running RISC OS), but I know some people
used dump/restore.
I'm not sure if I still have mine, but I'll look if no-one else volunteers.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York