24 Feb
2009
24 Feb
'09
2:51 p.m.
On 24 Feb 2009 at 17:30, Paul Koning wrote:
I suspect it was a case of "good enough".
1/2 inch magtape existed
before, and was ok for secondary storage. The industry standard was
set, and it used plain old non-laminated tape, and that worked fine
for offline data and the like.
On a related subject, have there ever been any non-contact (i.e.
flying head) tape drives brought to market?
Thanks,
Chuck