On Sun, 9 Jun 2013 07:47:24 -0700, Ed Jaffe wrote:
>
>The largest 3390 volumes in our tiny shop hold 3,940,020 tracks or
>262,668 cylinders. ...
>
2**18 + 2**9  + 12.  A peculiar number.  I wonder how they chose
that?

>... I concluded that almost nobody is using EAV!
>
>Why not? Personally, I would find it embarrassing if the Corsair thumb
>drive in my pocket held more data than our largest mainframe volumes.
>But, that's just me...
> 
Would that be 54 GB?  You have a thumb (flash?) drive bigger than that?

On 2013-06-11, at 05:04, R.S. wrote:

>W dniu 2013-06-11 12:06, Elardus Engelbrecht pisze:

>>[1] - I believe there is a program somewhere on the CBTTAPE which you can use 
>>to repair >>broken VBS datasets.

>ICEGENER or similar tool will do the same thing.

FSVO "broken"?  I suppose a GB of random bits could be deemed a
"broken VBS dataset".  For that there's no plausible "repair".  How
do VBS data sets get "broken"?  Is a VB data set immune to such
depravities, or do the errors simply pass undetected?

-- gil

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