19 Jun
1998
19 Jun
'98
4:28 p.m.
At 09:25 PM 6/18/98 -0700, you wrote:
New Topic! Ok people: what sort of storage media (and for what system) did
you guys carry around to start out with?
I started with cassettes for the PETs at high school, though not as old as
some but still nostalgic. I still have my original first tape, though it had
been transfered to a new housing and snaps when a good (assertive?) datasette
rewinds it, it is still readable.
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First??? DECtape, 1 inch wide on the 4 inch reels from the PDP-8 in the
OMSI computer labs. On occasion 8 level paper tape from the teletypes that
we used to access a GE time-share system in Seattle.
And... I still have gear in the collection that can read both! B^}
-jim
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