[Info-vax] The (now lost) future of Alpha.

[Paul Sture]

On 2018-08-25, johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk <johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> On Saturday, 25 August 2018 16:00:16 UTC+1, Paul Sture  wrote:
>> On 2018-08-20, johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk <johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> > Gapless tapes had more in common with data-logger formats.
>> > There were some drives which claimed to be able to read both
>> > "standard" and gapless e.g. as advertised in
>> > https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=1653755
>> 
>> Any idea which year that page relates to?
>
>
> I'm going to guess that the IEEE article/adverts come from
> around 1980. Why so? Says August 1980 at the bottom left corner 
> of half of the pages (e.g. ones originally numbered 81 and 83) :)

Duh. I was looking for a date in the headers rather than the footers :-(

> Plus putting a VT100 in an ad picture (top of page 82) implies 
> somewhere around that era too.
>
> Interpreting the relatively recent past can sometimes be a bit 
> easier than trying to predict the relatively near future :)
>
> [fingers crossed this formats/quotes OK]

It formated and quoted fine, thanks.

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