Slow boot times (Was: Re: Totally OT, but frustrated.....)

[Jim Battle]

Jules Richardson wrote:

> On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 23:48 -0500, David V. Corbin wrote:
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> So what's the slowest classic machine to boot (to the point where a user
> can start using the machine, say)?

The obscure Wang 3300 took around 40 minutes to get it into BASIC.  I 
couldn't believe these numbers myself but I have had multiple first hand 
  accounts, including from a Wang sales guy, that it was true.  It took 
longer if there was a read error, which wasn't too infrequent, and you 
didn't know it until the end of those 40 minutes.   It was a multi-step 
tape loading process.

I haven't updated my web site on the 3300 in a long time, and I need to 
fix it to correct my attempts to refute that 40 minute boot time:

http://www.thebattles.net/wang/3300.html