23 Feb
2011
23 Feb
'11
11:16 a.m.
--- On Wed, 2/23/11, Jerome H. Fine <jhfinedp3k at compsys.to> wrote:
From: Jerome H. Fine <jhfinedp3k at compsys.to>
Subject: Re: Bit of DEC Trivia
To: "On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Date: Wednesday, February 23, 2011, 2:07 PM
Guy Sotomayor wrote:
On Feb 23, 2011, at 9:40 AM, schoedel at
kw.igs.net
wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 08:25:42 -0800, Guy Sotomayor
wrote
>> Q: How many DECTapes (images) can fit on
a 1TB
HDD?
>>>
>> All of them?
>>
>
> YES! Finally someone got it! :-)
>
> DEC never shipped millions of DEC Tapes. At one time, the PDP-11/44 and the VAX 780 used the
TU58
media
as distribution tapes. How many installations
existed?
Ah, but you're forgetting. TU58's aren't true DECTapes. The TU-58 (DECTape II)
is really more of a modified DC150 format - the true DECTapes are little round reels. They
were used on PDP8 and PDP12 machines primarily.
-Ian