22 Oct
2004
22 Oct
'04
9:50 a.m.
On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 05:40:55PM -0400, Paul Koning wrote:
Interesting -- DOS format magtape. 6.3 filenames...
That has more to do with the use of RADIX-50 to store filenames on PDP-11
disks than anything that came out of Redmond (RAD-50 stores 3 uppercase
chars in 16 bits, so it takes three words to store names as 6.3)
-ethan
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Ethan Dicks, A-130-S Current South Pole Weather at 22-Oct-2004 21:40 Z
South Pole Station
PSC 468 Box 400 Temp -53.7 F (-47.7 C) Windchill -66.90 F (-55 C)
APO AP 96598 Wind 2.4 kts Grid 051 Barometer 673.5 mb (10872. ft)
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