12 Mar
2021
12 Mar
'21
8:38 a.m.
THanks Al! I forgot about that chapter of Tom's ..worked for him for a
few years, Fantastic Boss, and one helluv an engineer.
bb
On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 9:23 PM Al Kossow via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
On 3/11/21 6:18 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
On 3/11/21 6:16 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
there are memos in the Whirlwind archives that show the magnetic tape they
were getting had so many imperfections that they had to double up on the
tracks to make it reliable
On 3/11/21 6:12 PM, Bob Smith via cctalk wrote:
He also did the magtape system for TX-2
My recollection was the Linc was inspired by the
Whirlwind. Whirlwind
predates it by a few years.
Tom Stockebrand is the connecting link between all of these tape systems.
I don't know if he was involved with the original Raytheon tape design
for Whirlwind but he is known to have work on the tape system for the
Memory Test Computer and certainly would be aware of how the WW tape
system worked.