On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 12:09:58AM -0700, Erik Fair wrote: > > Of course, if you want to talk about really slow I/O with massive latency, > let's talk about random access to DECtapes ...
Apparantly it was useful to put a bad block at the end of every tape track so that otherwise sequential data wouldn't cross track boundaries. IIRC I have seen DECtape in action - on a pdp8. David -- David Laight: da...@l8s.co.uk