18 Dec
2007
18 Dec
'07
3:32 p.m.
On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 18:07 -0500, Roy J. Tellason wrote:
My initial idea didn't use reels, and wasn't
particularly concerned with
being able to change tapes, I just wanted some nontrivial amount of storage
to be available to me, and came up with (assuredly totally unrealistic)
numbers for not all that many feet of tape. Maybe as much as *gasp!* a half
a million bytes or so! :-)
Did any company ever actually produce a storage product that used
8-track carts (or indeed broadcast carts)? Did it work?
Gordon