old media

Tue Sep 20 04:33:58 UTC 2011

On 9/19/2011 9:20 PM, Randy Bush wrote:
>> Does anybody actually *have* a functional 7 track drive?
> if you really need one, i know what trail i would start to follow.
> there are folk keeping old stuff alive and pulling arcane things
> off old media (like the besm-6 system).
>
> randy
>
>

I haven't heard about te BESM-6 since the 1970s when I was studying 
Warsaw Pact Computers!

The BESM-6 was delivered from the factory without any software.