[GreenKeys] Question: Suppose There Were No Computers Or Glass Monitors...

[Joe Duszyński]

Stringy floppy the "Micro 8 track" high speed endless loop tape.
On my Radio Shack Model 1 it is just about as fast as the Floppy disk drive
if it is cued to the first program or only program on a short tape.
Back in the day it was the Shiznitz vs spending a fortune on a floppy drive.
Today it is as quaint as punch tape.


On Sun, Mar 6, 2022 at 9:36 PM Christian Gauger-Cosgrove <
captainkirk359 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 6 Mar 2022 at 13:19, Jordan Spencer Cunningham <js at teletype.net>
> wrote:
> > I envision in this fantasy world of mine that paper tape would have
> still largely given way to magnetic tape, even magnetic cassette tapes that
> could be popped in and out of any teleprinter or other data-processing
> machine for quick sneakernet data sharing. There would probably be some
> alternative media types like magnetic hard disks and floppy disks and the
> like, but magnetic cassettes would be the main type of exchangeable data
> storage.
> >
> Ever heard of DECtape/LINCtape and the successor, DECtape II?
>
> It's magnetic tape. That acts like a (very slow) disk. The latter even
> runs over a standard serial port. (You can use a modern machine to
> emulate a DECtape II drive for machines that use it.)
>
> Best regards,
> Christian
> --
> Christian M. Gauger-Cosgrove
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