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Originally Posted by DNSB
[*]Compared to writing and compiling my old BIOS ROMs for CP/M, installing and using DeDRM is a lot easier. You want fun, try dealing with booting from a tape drive with a 2048 byte ROM while handling all the other needed tasks needed to fake a disk drive to allow running CP/M from a tape drive. When I switched to using PC clones, I also implemented using a tape drive as a random access device. Years later, LTO came along.[/list]
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For a frightening scary moment I thought you meant paper tape.
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I also implemented using a tape drive as a random access device.
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That does work for read only or erase random access with paper tape.
There was paper tape on computers (and even to send messages from keyboard 20 years earlier) from the 1940s. Machine tools still were using paper tape after floppy drives came out.
Was it a 1/2" wide magnetic tape on a reel to reel machine. For cartridges, maybe Travan was worst. No, The stringy microdrive on the Sinclair QL was worst.