3B5 Tape Buffer Limit

[David St. Pierre]

In article <446 at gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP> chris at gargoyle.UUCP (Chris Johnston) writes:
>
>We have a new 3B5.  The tape hardware seems to be limited to an 8k
>buffer.  Since every one in the world writes tar tapes with blocksize
>20 we rewrite many tapes.
>

Gee - that's a 33% improvement over what they've been offering for the 3B20!
Every time I got a tar tape from a 3rd party, I'd have to go begging to someone
with a micro so I could reblock the tape. Oh well, any year now ...