On Sat 05 Jan 2019 at 14:44:46 -0600, Thom Cherryhomes wrote: > in the 8" days, the standard format was IBM 3740, which, literally was just > 73 tracks (with four spares), 128 byte sectors, 26 sectors per track. > The 3741/3742 keying stations would read and write the sectors directly, as > if they were just a stack of punched cards. IBMs virtualsiation VM still performs communication from one VM to another with virtual punch cards :) -Olaf. -- ___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert -- "What good is a Ring of Power \X/ rhialto/at/falu.nl -- if you're unable...to Speak." - Agent Elrond
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