3B5 Tape Buffer Limit
David St. Pierre
dsp at ptsfa.UUCP
Fri May 10 12:24:57 AEST 1985
In article <446 at gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP> chris at gargoyle.UUCP (Chris Johnston) writes:
>
>We have a new 3B5. The tape hardware seems to be limited to an 8k
>buffer. Since every one in the world writes tar tapes with blocksize
>20 we rewrite many tapes.
>
Gee - that's a 33% improvement over what they've been offering for the 3B20!
Every time I got a tar tape from a 3rd party, I'd have to go begging to someone
with a micro so I could reblock the tape. Oh well, any year now ...
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