On Apr 25, 2007, at 7:24 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
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?
IBM and its famous compatibility reputation. The need for additional
numbers are being put on the back burner as the tapes have grown
tremendously denser as IBM has been able to pack more and more data
on a tape.
Ed
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