16 Mar
1999
16 Mar
'99
7:17 p.m.
On Mar 16, 15:10, James Willing wrote:
I can play this game too :-) Nope, DECtape is 3/4" tape, and if I were
really nitpicky I'd say they were a little under 4" diameter.
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Pete Peter Turnbull
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York
On 16 Mar 1999, Eric Smith wrote:
For the
uninitiated, DECtapes are six-inch reels of 3/4 inch (?) tape.
Ummm... almost... four inch reels of 1 inch tape... 
16 Mar
16 Mar
7:35 p.m.
At 01:17 AM 3/17/99 GMT, you wrote:
On Mar 16, 15:10, James Willing wrote:
I can play this game too :-) Nope, DECtape is 3/4" tape, and if I were
really nitpicky I'd say they were a little under 4" diameter.
Ok... being home now where I can get my hands on it...
3 13/16 inch reel, and 3/4 inch tape... B^}
-jim
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On 16 Mar 1999, Eric Smith wrote:
For the
uninitiated, DECtapes are six-inch reels of 3/4 inch (?) tape.
Ummm... almost... four inch reels of 1 inch tape... 
17 Mar
17 Mar
4:53 p.m.
I wrote
For the uninitiated, DECtapes are six-inch reels of
3/4 inch (?) tape.
James Willing wrote:
Ummm... almost... four inch reels of 1 inch tape...
Peter Turnbull wrote:
I can play this game too :-) Nope, DECtape is
3/4" tape, and if I were
really nitpicky I'd say they were a little under 4" diameter.
At least I got part of it right. :-) My point was really just that it
wasn't mechanically compatible with any other kind of tape, unless you
count LINCtape, which is just the same thing run in the opposite direction.
Eric
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