The bus was used by Digital to interconnect its highest-performance computers with magnetic disk and magnetic tape storage equipment.
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The company was in the midst of a period of rapid technological change, with nascent computer technologies electronic computers, magnetic tape storage, disk drives, programming creating new competitors and market uncertainties.
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This was a professional desktop computer that had a 6800 microprocessor with up to 32 KB of user RAM, 300 KB magnetic tape storage, BASIC in ROM and a 1024 by 780 graphics display.
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Overland Data Inc . ( OVRL ) shares rose 1 3 / 8 to 11 3 / 8 after the maker of magnetic tape storage systems sold 3 million shares in an initial public offering.
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Overland Data Inc . ( OVRL ) shares rose as much as 1 3 / 8 to 11 3 / 8 after the maker of magnetic tape storage systems sold 3 million shares in an initial public offering.
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Despite its major thrust as a retail backroom machine, it was still sold as a general purpose business computer, as it did support the common peripherals of the day such as video terminals, punched cards, printers and, later, disc and magnetic tape storage for sales, stock and accounting applications.
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:: : : I have fond memories of reading The Art of Computer Programming chapter on external sorting ( Vol 3, if anyone's curious ), where it is all about what sort will minimize seek time on disks and drums and the optimal merge to ensure that rewinds ( ! ) for magnetic tape storage are at a minimum.
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