[SunRescue] Tape drive

[Joshua D. Boyd]

How much disk space did that machine have before the new chips were put
in?

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Joshua Boyd

On Tue, 22 May 2001, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> I remember the weekend at the UofC when the Honeywell guys shut down the
> system, backed it up, installed some new chips in the big 14" drives to
> give them a variable number of sectors per track, and fired it all back
> up again with a whole lot more disk space available!  IIRC it was
> something like 3-4 terrabytes after they were done.  That would have
> been about 1982 and we were probably running MR-10 or so, so that was an
> absolutely stunning astronomical amount of storage space for the time,
> especially for a relatively small university!