[CLUE-Tech] CD burning

[marcus hall]

On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 11:52:27PM -0700, Jed S. Baer wrote:
> 9600 eh? Try 1200. And 1600BPI 9-track. One of the joys which many
> newcomers to the IT field will never experience is the use of the
> write-ring as a projectile. They made a nice whistling noise if you threw
> them hard enough, but unlike something such as a CD platter, it was pretty
> difficult to do any damage with them.

1200 baud?  Try 110!  ASR-33 teletypes phoning in to an HP-2100 timesharing
BASIC system.  Oh the horrors!!  What about tarbel cassette tape?

Speaking of 9-track tape, does anybody know of anyplace that can do
media transfer from 9-track to *anything* more modern?  I have a few
old tapes that I would like to suck the data off of, if they are still
even readable.

> Unless you can remember typing your programs in using an O-29 keypunch
> machine, you're a youngster. ;-)

Yep, I recall making a master with all 1040 (13x80) punches punched, then
install that as a master and leave the machine running to create buckets
of chad...

marcus hall
marcus at tuells.org