Whither the ide-tape module

[Bob McClure Jr]

On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 02:15:14PM -0800, Rick Stevens wrote:
> <a great deal of snippage>
> 
> Heheheh!  No, I'm not going down RAM road.  I just am loathe to toss out
> ancient but working hardware.  There have been a number of times where
> people have hunted me down to recover data because I still had the only
> functional so-and-so they knew of.  You should see the collection of,
> umh, "classic" stuff I have laying about.
> 
> About six months ago, a chap I used to work with at JPL sent me two
> 9-tracks of data he needed.  I got the data off and onto CD for him.
> Turned out it was some stress analysis data from Apollo 10 that they
> wanted to compare against the failure data for Columbia.  Don't ask me
> why 30-odd-year-old data was relevant, but they wanted it and I had the
> system with a 9-track and CD burner that he knew worked reliably.

Hmm.  Maybe I should forward this to my wife as justification for some
of this antique stuff I keep around.  Change her mind?  I should live
so long.

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Cheers,
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Bob McClure, Jr.             Bobcat Open Systems, Inc.
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