Re: [comphist] Re: Microsoft and Xenix.

Jonathan Lundell
2001-06-26T20:52:58Z

At 10:44 AM -0400 2001-06-26, Rob Landley wrote:
>"A quarter century of unix" mentions RK05 cartridges several times, but never
>says much ABOUT them.
>
>Okay, so they're 2.4 megabyte removable cartridges? How big? Are they tapes
>or disk packs? (I.E. can you run off of them or are they just storage?) I
>know lots of early copies of unix were sent out from Bell Labs on RK05
>cartidges signed "love, ken"...

http://www.pdp8.net/rk05/rk05.shtml

>What was that big reel to reel tape they always show in movies, anyway?

The big-refrigerator-sized guys were generally attached to
mainframes, IBM or otherwise. Here's a little info:
http://www.digital-interact.co.uk/site/html/reference/media_9trk.html
(but take it with a grain of salt; IBM surely didn't go to nine
tracks because of ASCII!).
--
/Jonathan Lundell.