25 Nov
2012
25 Nov
'12
7:49 p.m.
On Sun, 25 Nov 2012, Jules Richardson wrote:
On 11/24/2012 01:00 PM, Chris Elmquist wrote:
I sure do miss the 15 minute boot times of my 11/750, which only failed
20% of the time due to a tape error near the end of the console tape.
But since it seems even raw tapes are approaching
unobtainium in any
quantity
Modify tapes to contain an embedded USB stick, modify drive* to accept them,
retain user experience of inserting/removing cartridge... ;-)
* including delays, occasional errors etc., of course.