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From: dsp@ptsfa.UUCP (David St. Pierre)
Newsgroups: net.bugs.usg
Subject: Re: 3B5 Tape Buffer Limit
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Date: Thu, 9-May-85 22:24:57 EDT
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In article <446@gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP> chris@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 ...