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From: jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos)
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Subject: Re: Answer to: What do you call the "blockhouse" now?
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> It mentions the use of magnetic tape drives at a time when
> everybody else is using disk drives.

I saw a cost analysis on this awhile back.  Its conclusion was that for
most of NASA's computers-in-space functions, the magnetic media only have
to be sequential-access devices; and that the cost-per-bit of magnetic
tape is enormously smaller than for disk.  Thus, the use of the magnetic
tapes.
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