[SunRescue] Tape drive

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Tuesday, May 22, 2001 at 08:57:47 (-0600), Will Jennings wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [SunRescue] Tape drive
>
> Yep, and I own a DECsystem-2020 even... hehe... But for multics you'd need a 
> DPS-8, which is a CPU rack, a tape drive rack, and some big ass disk drives, 
> and also a FEP which happens to be a DPS-6..

You could probably use much more modern and smaller drives.  There's a
story on www.multicians.org about connecting DAT tapes to a Multics
(though the way they did it sounded completely stupid to me! ;-)

I remember the weekend at the UofC when the Honeywell guys shut down the
system, backed it up, installed some new chips in the big 14" drives to
give them a variable number of sectors per track, and fired it all back
up again with a whole lot more disk space available!  IIRC it was
something like 3-4 terrabytes after they were done.  That would have
been about 1982 and we were probably running MR-10 or so, so that was an
absolutely stunning astronomical amount of storage space for the time,
especially for a relatively small university!

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