ROM Cartridges. Lifespan, and other tidbits

[Chuck Guzis]

On 04/19/2016 08:13 AM, Paul Koning wrote:
> 
>> On Apr 19, 2016, at 10:53 AM, Swift Griggs <swiftgriggs at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Well, after discussing all things that can go wrong with a floppy
>> disk to corrupt or destroy it, it makes me wonder about another
>> vintage media format: the cart.
> 
> You mean a ROM cartridge as opposed to a magnetic tape cartridge,
> right?  ("Cart" is also broadcast radio slang for magnetic tape
> cartridges, vaguely like an 8-track tape in appearance.)

...As opposed to the cart filled with listings, tapes and card trays
that I/O clerks pushed around.   Such a card full of 9 track tapes would
probably qualify as a storage medium.

Or the cartridge filled with buckshot that you'd liked to have used on
the I/O clerk who dumped your tray of cards off the cart...


--Chuck