At 09:25 PM 6/18/98 -0700, you wrote:
New Topic! Ok people: what sort of storage media (and for what system) did
you guys carry around to start out with?
[Joel Fedorko]
Mid-Late '70s -
Punch Cards (80 col) for the IBM box
Paper tape for various HP & DEC boxes (with upgrades to mylar in the later years),
tape cartridges for the HP2645A Mini Data Station,
tape cassettes for a TI? terminal,
DECtape PDPs,
LINCtape (relative of DECtape) DEC, DG, Varian, Perkin-Elmer, Altair
Late 70s early 80s
9 Track tape dominated across the board
8" floppy for micro's
Brief encounter with the 96 column System 32 punch card
40 Meg disk pack for HP3000 (forget drive part#, it was made by CDC?)