23 Feb
2018
23 Feb
'18
1:49 p.m.
On 2/21/2018 5:14 PM, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
Ok, then it could be for VMS, which also does this
(via Andy's unsupported driver). I don't know of PDP-11 or other minicomputer
systems that do DECtape overlapped seek. I suppose it could be for artistic
verisimilitude...
TSS/8. It was a wonderful thing to witness. Start the drive spinning,
deselect it, go start up another, then reselect the first one as it
approached the right part of the tape.
??? -Rick