25 Nov
2019
25 Nov
'19
4:58 a.m.
On Sun, Nov 24, 2019 at 2:53 PM Larry McVoy <lm(a)mcvoy.com> wrote:
Good luck with that. I had a 4/470 that had an
exabyte, wheeled it out of
building 5 at Sun and into building 9 at SGI and the tapes wouldn't read
back.
We called them buffered dev-nulls.
TBH, that's what we called most tapes except for DLTs.
On Sun, Nov 24, 2019 at 05:39:30PM -0500, Richard Salz
wrote:
Historically important he says. The guy had
creds.
https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1198706617967095809?s=19
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