[Info-vax] Backup TK50 tapes

[Richard B. Gilbert]

On 2/26/2013 8:17 AM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> 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
>

Some of us old farts have actually booted computers from paper tape. 
(IBM System 7, PDP/8)  I ran one for a couple of years.  I have more
processing power in my wrist watch than those antiques.