[Info-vax] Meditech in the news

[Bob Eager]

On Wed, 12 Jan 2022 22:23:30 +0000, George Cornelius wrote:

> Wasn't there a time when tape management systems were considered to have
> become so reliable you no longer needed to remove the "write rings" from
> your nine-track tapes to avoid overwriting crucial data? The beginning,
> of course, of a rather long and slippery slope down.

I worked on a system where the software only allowed backup tapes to be 
mounted with a write ring when a backup was being taken. At all other 
times (e.g. for a restore) the system would refuse to touch them unless 
the ring was removed or an operator specifically intervened on the 
operator console.

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