[144835] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: old media
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roy)
Tue Sep 20 00:35:31 2011
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 21:33:58 -0700
From: Roy <r.engehausen@gmail.com>
CC: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <m2vcsnx2t3.wl%randy@psg.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 9/19/2011 9:20 PM, Randy Bush wrote:
>> Does anybody actually *have* a functional 7 track drive?
> if you really need one, i know what trail i would start to follow.
> there are folk keeping old stuff alive and pulling arcane things
> off old media (like the besm-6 system).
>
> randy
>
>
I haven't heard about te BESM-6 since the 1970s when I was studying
Warsaw Pact Computers!
The BESM-6 was delivered from the factory without any software.
