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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Packet Loss
Hello all - On Sat, 16 Dec 2000, [email protected] wrote: > > On Fri, 15 Dec 2000 09:24:04 CST, "John R. Grant" said: > > <cringe> > > that would be 9600 bit per inch GCR format 9-track tape, don't you think? > > </cringe> > > At least in the IBM world, the options for 7-track were 200/556/800 bpi > with even or odd parity, and mode=normal/data converter/translator. For > 9-track the options are 800 NRZI, 1600 PE, and 6250 GCR. > > I still have 21 9-track tapes in my office that I need to do something with, > as our last system with 3420-style round tapes is being decomissioned in > the next few months. Slightly off topic, but interesting nonetheless. I once worked on a marine seismic data acquisition system in the North Sea oil fields, and we ran the system 24/7 when we were on a job. We generated 9-track 6250 GCR tapes at the rate of about one tape every 10 minutes. We used to buy and ship the tapes by the container load (and we used a Cray to process the data...). cheers Hugh -- Radiator: the most portable, flexible and configurable RADIUS server anywhere. Available on *NIX, *BSD, Windows 95/98/2000, NT, MacOS X. - Nets: internetwork inventory and management - graphical, extensible, flexible with hardware, software, platform and database independence.
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