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Ha, yeah I remember doing many repeated mount/unmount requests on the school’s DECSystem20 before I realized it was a request for the human operator to find a m
by Isamu 5y ago
Ha, yeah I remember doing many repeated mount/unmount requests on the school’s DECSystem20 before I realized it was a request for the human operator to find a magtape and thread it through the reel-to-reel.
I was reading font data. Times have changed.
- zabzonk 5y agoMercifully, I had nothing to do with tape drives then, much horror later. And shortly after we converted from the DEC10 to a couple of IBM 4381s, who's backup regimes I simply did not want to know about - fingers in ears and screaming. But I did like them and wrote a distributed printing system for them in Rexx.