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[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway." – Andrew Tanenbaum

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

My dad had tapes, but I never got to see data go from a tape to ram. They had 8 GB of space, I remember

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Tapes hold a lot more now. LTO-9 tapes hold 18 TB and IBM 3592 Gen 6 tapes hold 50 TB.

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