Magnetic tape filesystem

Chuck Guzis cclist at sydex.com
Mon Feb 9 17:12:23 CST 2015


On 02/09/2015 02:34 PM, Dave G4UGM wrote:


> Performance? Where I worked our master file was small by modern standards, a
> mere 4million record, but it took up 14 reels of tape. The update program
> had many tricks to speed things up...

Now, consider the situation if you were the IRS in 1970.

--Chuck



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