[Info-vax] RMS internals?

[P. Sture]

In article <h5qqmq$psp$1 at naig.caltech.edu>,
 glen herrmannsfeldt <gah at ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote:

> There was a story of someone writing a whole tape as one block using
> data chaining on S/360.

That is the case for seismological survey tapes.  Specialized hardware 
is need to read them. Those tapes are also kept for many years, copied 
to newer tapes (tape life), and re-analyzed along the way.

-- 
Paul Sture