Magnetic tape filesystem

Chuck Guzis cclist at sydex.com
Mon Feb 9 13:45:20 CST 2015


On 02/09/2015 11:31 AM, Mike Stein wrote:

>
> But these were different times where life moved
> more slowly. I actually designed several systems
> using four cassette drives and magnetic cards, and
> one or two days every week you just set aside an
> hour or two for sorting and housekeeping.

Magnetic card storage was left out of this discussion.  NCR 353 CRAM, 
anyone?  Did anyone ever write an external sort using that beast?

--Chuck




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