Re: 7 track tape

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From: sys...
Date: Mon, 08 Oct 1990 16:39

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In article <122...@linus.mitre.org>, jcmo...@mwunix.mitre.org (Joe Morris) writes:
>
>    Also, 9-track tape is *always*
>    written in odd parity, so you don't have to specify that option.
>    One real pain in 7-track days was having to be able to handle a
>    tape with some records in even parity and some in odd.  
>
  Hmmm...
    We still have many 7 track tapes lying about that were written
with headers in even parity BCD, and data records odd parity binary.

    Just try writing binary data on a 7-track tape in even parity...

WIlly

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