That would be the IBM3420 tape drive. I remember those.... I also remember the IBM MSS storage unit - bullet like tape cartridges...
I¡¯d like to say happy days, but...?
Tim
On 30 Jun 2020, at 20:19, Kevin Walker <sage@...> wrote:
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Anyone remember the large reel to reel tapes that where?maybe 3/4" or 1" in width that dropped down from the reels for processing?
There were also the metal drums and later after that the ticker tape I remember seeing when my dad was early into his programming days in the 60s or was it early 70s IIRC.
My first computer I owned outside of home was a Mac Plus and oh the joy of finally affording a 20MB hard drive over swapping those 3.5" disks.? :)
Kevin
On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 11:17 AM Ken Butt via <k_butt=[email protected]> wrote:
On the TRS80 did you have the Dancing Demon? When I started with ICL in the 1970sw they were just moving on from the 1900 to the 2900 series mainframes. I used to punch my test program instructions onto paper tape so that I could run them multiple times. 200mbye hard disks and 8" singe sided simgle density floppt discs with 1/4 mbyte to run the word processing software on a 7502. We needed 2mByte memory on the mainframe to load the operating system.
On Tuesday, 30 June 2020, 19:11:37 BST, Gary Keep via <lordhay=[email protected]> wrote:
I remember fiddling with the volume and tone on my cassette player to load TRS80 Games.
Then the wonderful Atari ST1040 came along with floppy drives, perfect for the SSI games.
First Basic program I wrote was stored on a 5 3/4"?
And the last.
Den tis 30 juni 2020 20:00Doug Melville <dougmelville@...> skrev:
I was digging around in some old junk yesterday and came across a 3.5¡± floppy, which I showed to my 20 year old nephew. He at least didn¡¯t comment something along the lines of ¨C ¡®cool, someone 3d printed the save icon¡¯.
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I remember with the 5.25¡± ones you could get double duty out of them by clipping the case and turning them over. Not reliable but a damn sight better than tape cassettes.
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And the college was still showing the use of punch cards when I started there. ?
Mine was 12TB, I had it delivered on a lorry full of floppy disks.
On 30/06/2020 12:58, Fredd Bloggs wrote:
12gb, no wonder there are issues! 12mb you mean.
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And mine has not arrived, but then.... I have not ordered a copy yet.
On 30/06/2020 12:56:17, don.avis via <don.avis@...> wrote:
If yours still hasn't arrived email Richard Clarke at? sales@...?and he will sort it for you.??There has been an issue with some EMails bouncing as the file size is over 12GB
