[Info-vax] Backup TK50 tapes

[Bob Koehler]

In article <kgh0ef$ftm$1 at Iltempo.Update.UU.SE>, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> writes:
> 
> 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...

   Some of those bootable tapes were paper tape.  Many times I booted
   an -11 from fan-fold.  And I'm pretty sure TOPS-20 installation
   started with a bootable tape (on a -10).