In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 11/16/2008
at 10:44 AM, Ed Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Thankfully the tapes stored at Sydney University were still available;
>however, what was not readily available was a IBM 729 Mark V tape drive
>needed to read the data.
WTF? Why couldn't they use a more modern drive with the 7-track feature?
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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