Magnetic tape filesystem

Chuck Guzis cclist at sydex.com
Sun Feb 8 20:03:21 CST 2015


On 02/08/2015 05:50 PM, Jules Richardson wrote:
> On 02/08/2015 07:18 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
>> Magtape filesystems have been around since the 1950s at least, and
>> possibly
>> the 50s.
>
> Wasn't there at least one which used good ol' VHS video tape as the
> storage medium? And by good, I mean bad.

Yeah, I had one of those--just an ISA card with some connectors.  It was 
S-L-O-W and not terribly reliable.  I don't recall who made it.

--Chuck




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