Reply to post: Re: Paper tape anyone?

NASA dusts off FORTRAN manual, revives 20-year-old data on Ganymede

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Re: Paper tape anyone?

There were numerous formats for read/write of magnetic tapes on Vax machines, ranging from VMS Backup to some "standard" format that no other computer seemed to recognise as standard. Not many people knew their way around these.

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