[Info-vax] TK50 - this is annoying...

Johnny Billquist bqt at softjar.se
Wed Oct 10 05:45:14 EDT 2012


On 2012-10-09 23:42, JF Mezei wrote:
> On 12-10-09 17:06, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Linear_Tape
>
> So modern DLT is really still an improved TK50 ? (more tracks, and
> greater tape density).

Yes.

> Does the tape still travel in the same directions to go from track to
> track ?

Not sure how you mean that questions. It's a serpentine. Track 1 goes 
from start to end. Track 2 goes from end to start. Track 3 goes from 
start to end... And so on... Silly to rewind to continue processing data 
from the tape.

	Johnny




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