[Info-vax] Backup TK50 tapes

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <kgh0ef$ftm$1 at iltempo.update.uu.se>,
	Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> writes:
> On 2013-02-25 15:57, Paul Sture wrote:
>> In article <kgb9r6$mac$2 at tdi.cu.mi.it>, supervinx <nessuno at libero.it>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Il Sat, 23 Feb 2013 13:39:34 -0500, Stephen Hoffman ha scritto:
>>>
>>>> On 2013-02-23 17:41:38 +0000, supervinx said:
>>>>
>>>>> Well, let's see again what I've understood...
>>>>
>>>> 0) No one willing uses tape boot.
>>>>
>>> Hmmm ... so why do boot tapes exist ?
>>> I know that booting from TK50 takes more than an hour ...
>>> But for an historical purpose I'll save those tapes.
>>
>> I first came across bootable tapes in the IBM world circa 1980 and yes
>> the IBM 4331 could boot from a 9 track tape.
> 
> DEC was doing bootable tapes for the PDP-11 pretty much from the start, 
> which place us around 1970. Not sure about other DEC systems, such as 
> the PDP-10. I don't remember ever seeing bootable tapes for the PDP-5, 
> PDP-8 or PDP-12. And I don't know about the 18-bit series...
> 

When one says "tape" are they including paper with holes in it?  :-)

bill

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