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Kind of funny picture for the tape backup -- that's a stereo recorder, not a data backup device.

by pstuart 11y ago

madengr 11y ago
Though I did use one of those on my C64 as a kid. Thought it was much cooler that a cassette.
hga 11y ago
Young whippersnappers. I actually had one of those TEAC reel to reel tape drives, maybe not that exact model---I don't remember it being able to auto-reverse, but I wouldn't have cared about that---but otherwise the same controls. It was a good device for its time, as were the reel to reel 7- and 9-track computer tape drives I used later and concurrently: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9_track_tape https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9_track_tape (7 track was the standard for 36 bit PDP-10s, 6 bits of data and one of parity, and some earlier IBM machines as well.)
- pstuart 11y ago
  I learned me some audio engineering on a Teac A-3440 way back when, which is why the picture caught my eye.
- thwarted 11y ago
  From that wikipedia article: The above describes a typical transport system; however, manufacturers engineered many alternative designs. For example, some designs used a horizontal transport deck where the operator simply set the tape reel in the supply reel bay, closed the door and pressed the load button, then a vacuum system would draw the tape along the path and onto a take-up hub within the mechanism. Back in the day, I used a 9-track tape drive like this. It was quite the thing to watch it mount the tape. A while ago I found a video of it[0]. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PS9QtC7FYiE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PS9QtC7FYiE
  - mrpippy 11y ago
    Ah the HP 88780, my cubicle-mate for a summer job 15 years ago
hvo 11y ago
It always fascinates me about how things were being doing,back then, with respect to programming languages and system admin.Back then,there was no such things as ansible,chef,puppet,Docker and stuff.Still,System admins were about to get things done.Pretty interesting.
- KaiserPro 11y ago
  cfengine, rdist, ssh, rcp, failing that bash/tsch/perl scripts config management has been around for a long time...

Kind of funny picture for the tape backup -- that's a stereo recorder, not a data backup device.

by pstuart 11y ago

Kind of funny picture for the tape backup -- that's a stereo recorder, not a data backup device.

madengr 11y ago

Though I did use one of those on my C64 as a kid. Thought it was much cooler that a cassette.

hga 11y ago

Young whippersnappers. I actually had one of those TEAC reel to reel tape drives, maybe not that exact model---I don't remember it being able to auto-reverse, but I wouldn't have cared about that---but otherwise the same controls. It was a good device for its time, as were the reel to reel 7- and 9-track computer tape drives I used later and concurrently: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9_track_tape https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9_track_tape (7 track was the standard for 36 bit PDP-10s, 6 bits of data and one of parity, and some earlier IBM machines as well.)

pstuart 11y ago
I learned me some audio engineering on a Teac A-3440 way back when, which is why the picture caught my eye.
thwarted 11y ago
From that wikipedia article: The above describes a typical transport system; however, manufacturers engineered many alternative designs. For example, some designs used a horizontal transport deck where the operator simply set the tape reel in the supply reel bay, closed the door and pressed the load button, then a vacuum system would draw the tape along the path and onto a take-up hub within the mechanism. Back in the day, I used a 9-track tape drive like this. It was quite the thing to watch it mount the tape. A while ago I found a video of it[0]. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PS9QtC7FYiE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PS9QtC7FYiE
- mrpippy 11y ago
  Ah the HP 88780, my cubicle-mate for a summer job 15 years ago

hvo 11y ago

It always fascinates me about how things were being doing,back then, with respect to programming languages and system admin.Back then,there was no such things as ansible,chef,puppet,Docker and stuff.Still,System admins were about to get things done.Pretty interesting.

KaiserPro 11y ago
cfengine, rdist, ssh, rcp, failing that bash/tsch/perl scripts config management has been around for a long time...