when I started that work, we used mag tape for data
short for magnetic tape
Example sentencesExamples
If it was computerized, we might be able to read the media if it survived (half-inch mag tape or punch cards) but would probably have to spend a lot of time reverse engineering obsolete CAD formats.
Turns out the power supply for the mag tape drive was tied in with the CPU, so if the tape drive drew too much current, it crashed the CPU.
Originally they'd give it to us on big mag tapes, like, literally, those tapes you see on old Star Trek episodes.
Here's a picture of me at the operators/programmers teletype; that's not an ash tray to my right, it's a spool of half-inch mag tape.
The case holding the mag tapes was were I had left it, apparently unharmed.
Even though you pioneered punch card technology, that didn't stop you from adapting or inventing new technologies like mag tapes, hard disks and integrated circuits.
I was told that the computer engineer was working on one of the mag tape drives that had a motor problem.
Definition of mag tape in US English:
mag tape
noun
informal
when I started that work, we used mag tape for data
short for magnetic tape
Example sentencesExamples
I was told that the computer engineer was working on one of the mag tape drives that had a motor problem.
Originally they'd give it to us on big mag tapes, like, literally, those tapes you see on old Star Trek episodes.
Even though you pioneered punch card technology, that didn't stop you from adapting or inventing new technologies like mag tapes, hard disks and integrated circuits.
Here's a picture of me at the operators/programmers teletype; that's not an ash tray to my right, it's a spool of half-inch mag tape.
If it was computerized, we might be able to read the media if it survived (half-inch mag tape or punch cards) but would probably have to spend a lot of time reverse engineering obsolete CAD formats.
The case holding the mag tapes was were I had left it, apparently unharmed.
Turns out the power supply for the mag tape drive was tied in with the CPU, so if the tape drive drew too much current, it crashed the CPU.