12 Aug
2020
12 Aug
'20
5:41 a.m.
On Wed, 29 Jul 2020, John Cowan wrote:
When I talk about DECtape in my capacity as the local
old fart, i
describe it as "a disk with one track and about 1500 small sectors that
spins ve-ry ve-ry slow-ly..
According to an ex-boss of mine, a demonstration of the DECtape's
reliability was to blow cigarette smoke over the heads when the tape was
moving (this was back when smoking was socially acceptable, if not
actually encouraged).
-- Dave