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DECtape,
originally called Microtape, is a
magnetic tape data
storage medium used with many
Digital Equipment Corporation computers,
including the PDP-6...
- and
deleted on a
DECtape as
though it were a disk drive. For
greater efficiency, the
DECtape drive could read and
write to a
DECtape in both directions...
- tape
drives such as
DECtape.
DECtape had fixed-size
indexed blocks that
could be
rewritten without disturbing other blocks, so
DECtape could be used like...
- of
additional DECtape drives than OS/8. "PDP-8
spare parts" (PDF). P. R.Bell; R. S. Dillon; B. E.
Beasley (October 1975). "Disk/
Dectape Monitor for the...
- cartridge-based 3480 family.[citation needed] LINCtape, and its derivative,
DECtape were
variations on this "round tape". They were
essentially a personal...
- Input/output (I/O)
includes a keyboard, printer,
punched tape and dual
transport DECtape drives (type 555). The
standard core
memory capacity is 4K
words (9 KB)...
- were: PDP-15/10: a 4K-word paper-tape-based
system PDP-15/20: 8K,
added DECtape PDP-15/30: 16K word,
added memory protection and a foreground/background...
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DECtape." It was a disk
oriented system,
faster than its predecessor, the PDP-8 4K Disk
Monitor System, with
tricks to make it run
quickly on
DECtape...
- a
label to a
magnetic tape or
other magnetic medium.
Initializers for
DECtape format the tape into blocks.
Archivers output a
stream or a
single file...
- disk RX50/RX33 – 5.25-inch
floppy disk TU10 – 9-track tape
drive TU56 –
DECtape block-addressed tape
system VT05/VT50/VT52/VT100/VT220 –
video display...
