In a recent note, Ed Gould said: > Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 19:43:21 -0500 > > > There is also the poor design of Tape Labels where you have only 17 > > positions to store the last 17 characters of 18-44 character long > > There must be a history behind this decision. Can anyone share it? > Is it sufficient explanation that storage used to be expensive?
But why does the deficiency persist into the 21st century? -- gil -- StorageTek INFORMATION made POWERFUL ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
