6 Jul
2025
6 Jul
'25
4:15 p.m.
On 7/6/2025 2:21 PM, Gary Grebus via cctalk wrote:
On 7/4/25 11:07, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote:
I seem to remember a number of tapes that would do that in those days.
Anybody here ever use an Exatron Stringy Floppy. Didn't run off the
reel because it was like an 8-track. But it would happily loop all the
way around and write over the beginning of the tape making it unusable.
:-)
bill
We had a TU77 on a VAX 11/780. (Should have
waited for the TU78.)
Maybe not. IIRC, the TU78 had a bunch of teething problems. I
definitely remember many 2 AM phone calls from the night shift operators
when the overnight backup runs failed (I think the tape would run off
the end of the reel). Much back and forth with the DEC hardware and VMS
engineers before it finally got fixed.