DECtape
Dave Martindale
dave at onfcanim.UUCP
Mon Jan 13 04:33:29 AEST 1986
You could actually boot from DECtape. The real challenge was getting a
minimal root filesytem (bootloader, some inodes, unix, /etc/init, /bin/sh,
and some of /dev) onto a DECtape. If I remember correctly, they only
stored about 256Kb.
Speaking of strange DEC hardware, anyone remember the RF11 disk? A fixed-
head drive that was formatted so you could rewrite individual 16-bit
words, and whose transfer rate was *slower* than the not-exactly-fast
RK05 disk. It made a good /tmp though (zero seek time).
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