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From: jr@bbncc5.UUCP (John Robinson)
Newsgroups: net.rumor
Subject: Re: Computer Horror Stories
Message-ID: <2352@bbncc5.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 19-Mar-86 13:06:35 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 19 13:06:35 1986
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References: <259@entropy.UUCP> <140@atari.UUcp>
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Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman, Cambridge, MA
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In article <140@atari.UUcp> dyer@atari.UUcp (Landon Dyer) writes:
>
>NBS was running version 6 Unix on a PDP-11/45 with four RL02 packs.
>It took nearly half a day to backup the system.  Half a day to copy
>four 10 megabyte packs???

We once had an 11/34 running V6 from a DecTape.  Type date at it and
it spun its tape for 30 seconds before answering you.

/jr