| Posted by 'Dukes |
3/12/2006 9:58 PM | remove |
At my company HQ, reel tapes are still utilized; Info is transmitted, customer backups are stored on these tapes in duplicate, two different sites mirroring each other; and each building is intentionall situated on two different power grids, despite having a diesel generator with 10000 gallons of fuel. Nowadays we use the robots to manage these tapes; its' cool to see; the floor in the computer room is elevated so all the wiring can be routed underneath. Talk about you backups.
I'd like to see what is on these tapes.
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| Posted by Dr.Jav In Wonderland |
6/13/2007 1:17 AM | remove |
My first 7 years in computing were having me play "tape monkey" for everything from user and system data to backups. Computers were still cool in the 80's to me!
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| Posted by Benjammer |
11/4/2007 9:16 PM | remove |
It's probably porn.
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| Posted by Samurai |
11/5/2007 12:16 PM | remove |
on our main historians in the data room out front of where I work, there is still an IBM PDP11(?) machine... it runs occasionally. there are only about 3 people left there that know how to run it or retrieve data from it.
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| Posted by Emperor Wang |
11/5/2007 3:20 PM | remove |
If it's a PDP-11, then it's by Digital Equipment Corp. or DEC.
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| Posted by Samurai |
11/5/2007 9:11 PM | remove |
oops. Sorry... i just remember seeing PDP-(X) on it... :oP
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| Posted by Emperor Wang |
11/6/2007 4:19 AM | remove |
Then you're surely looking at a 25 year old piece of hardware. I cut my computer teeth on those things back in the early 80s.
It might do ya good to figure out the ins and outs of the thing in your spare time. Once those 3 old timers bite the inevitable dust...
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| Posted by Samurai |
11/6/2007 12:25 PM | remove |
we used to run Digital (ok i'm going to try and get this right) VAX something or other for production.
We have since gone to Windows friendly shit like Processbook, Proficy and Siemens Process Vision
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| Posted by THWN2 |
1/4/2022 1:16 AM | remove |
My dad worked for Uarco business forms in Barrington il. I have some photos of him in the computer room dating back to 1963. There are all kinds of reel to reel tape drives. My dad told me the 8 year old computer im on right now is more powerful than that whole power hungry computer room as it was in 1963.
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