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Re: Who introduced named files?

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On Fri, 12 Jun 2020 17:15:40 -0700, Quadibloc wrote:

> On Friday, June 12, 2020 at 6:08:10 PM UTC-6, John Levine wrote:
> 
>> I'm pretty sure that LINCtape was the first randomly accessible tape
>> system so it would have been the first filesystem on tape. DECtape was
>> probably the last.
> 
> There was a DECtape II. It used the Philips Compact Cassette.

No, it didn't. It used a form factor that was smaller in area but 
thicker, with a metal backplate. Similar to (but not the same as) the 
later Travan and other drives.

There *was* also a Compact Cassette based system, but it wasn't branded 
DECtape II. It was the TU60.

See: http://www.psych.usyd.edu.au/pdp-11/media.html

(I have a couple of DECtape II cartridges somewhere)

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