On Sun, Nov 24, 2019 at 2:53 PM Larry McVoy <lm@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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