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Re: Who introduced named files?

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In article <897040863.613744950.882309.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org>,
Peter Flass  <peter_flass@yahoo.com> wrote:

>> DECtape, dates from 1962 or thereabouts, a perfectly ordinary computer system 
>> might have one magnetic tape drive with a tape on it that contains, say, an 
>> assembler, a COBOL compiler, and a FORTRAN compiler, and some way to advance the 
>> conventional (7-track!) tape to the right one of those.
>
>Probably, originally the “some way” was by file number on the tape.

Originally, sure, but by 1960-ish tapes had labels with file names.
(These are short files between the data files, not the paper labels.)
See the messages I posted in this thread a few days ago.

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