14 Feb
2006
14 Feb
'06
10:24 p.m.
On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 19:07 +0000, Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk wrote:
Which reminds me of using an audio cassette as a file-system (on a Sharp MZ-80B CP/M machine). It can be done -- you need to do computation on the sizes of the "deleted" slots, then find them on the tape and write chunks to them, then rewind and update the "directory" segment near the beginning ...
NB::: Been There. Done it. Got the tee-shirt. Not going back.
I think in terms of inconvenient file system access you win (unless Peter Onion wants to step in with some story about paper tape hell on a Elliot 803) :-)