On 10 Jul 2008, at 2:02 pm, Robert G. Brown wrote:

Next (if things go as they usually do) we all have to kid around about
IBM 5100's and QIC (floppies are just plain too modern for me:-) but if
I do that the Titorheads will attack and I'll have to once again
unconvincingly deny that I am, in fact, John Titor.

In 1998 I was still partially responsible for a machine which booted from tape. The machine in question was the data collection device for an NMR spectrometer. The machine in question is probably still going strong now - NMR machines being somewhat expensive to replace.

Tim


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