Re: 7 track tape

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From: ma...
Date: Fri, 05 Oct 1990 09:55

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jje@virtech.uucp (Jeremy J. Epstein) writes:

>Just curious...does anyone still have a working 7 track drive?
>What were the advantages/disadvantages of 7 track as opposed to
>9 track?

If you only got 6 bit characters, you only need...

Which also explains all the wierd byte formats you could/can write
to 9-track tapes. They try to fit 6 and 9 bit chars onto 8 bits of 
tape without wastage.

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