17 Sep
2020
17 Sep
'20
6:17 p.m.
Acoustically, the best tapes were the short-record
"stranger" tapes.
All sorts of interesting noise. I could tell from across the room when
someone was running the tape section of the Navy audit tests for COBOL
just by the sounds.
MALET was also pretty good, reading and writing a bunch of blocks that
were one frame longer or shorter than the last.? Loud rising or falling
tone in the noisy computer room.
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