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Mon Aug 2 14:09:17 CDT 2004


On Mon, 2 Aug 2004, Tom Hudson wrote:

> To be honest, I've never heard of any other computers using 8-tracks as
> storage.  Tape is bad enough, but the nature of 8-track architecture (no
> rewind) would make usage of it almost completely untenable!

Right, which makes it all the more surprising.  Was it reliable?  Did it
have a directory structure of any sort?  Did it store multiple
programs/data per track?

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