-=> mark lewis wrote to Josh Roybal <=-

 ml>  On Wed, 15 Oct 2014, Josh Roybal wrote to All:

 ml> you needed good stable power also... the slightest fluctuation would
 ml> farkle your data reading and writing on tape... i still have,
 ml> around here somewhere, a star trek game from a mainframe
 ml> system... it is a basic source code printout on greenbar
 ml> paper... i typed that game in many times way back when... i
 ml> never was able to get a good save to or load from tape... i
 ml> suspect due to the fridge or AC switching on or off... i
 ml> tried many many times and just never was successful... i've
 ml> kept that printout in the hopes of getting it entered and
 ml> saved some time... i did play the game a few times but
 ml> never really got anywhere in it...

That part I do remember, that it was not anywhere in the same ballpark as far
as reliability was concerned as the reel tapes of yore that were actually made
for data I/O.

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