19 Apr
2016
19 Apr
'16
8:45 a.m.
On 04/19/2016 08:13 AM, Paul Koning wrote:
...As opposed to the cart filled with listings, tapes and card trays
that I/O clerks pushed around. Such a card full of 9 track tapes would
probably qualify as a storage medium.
Or the cartridge filled with buckshot that you'd liked to have used on
the I/O clerk who dumped your tray of cards off the cart...
--Chuck
On Apr 19, 2016, at 10:53 AM, Swift Griggs
<swiftgriggs at gmail.com>
wrote:
Well, after discussing all things that can go wrong with a floppy
disk to corrupt or destroy it, it makes me wonder about another
vintage media format: the cart.
You mean a ROM cartridge as opposed to a magnetic tape cartridge,
right? ("Cart" is also broadcast radio slang for magnetic tape
cartridges, vaguely like an 8-track tape in appearance.)