Re: newbie question -storing a file from tape to disk -

Since there are no USB ports on any machine that MPE currently runs on, this
could not work. Also, I believe that a lot of the functionality of USB is
built into the motherboard and the driver would interface with that. Since
there are no USB ports on Par-RISc boxes, that I am aware of, it's not going
to happen on the current hardware.

I remember bringing up the USB issue to HP at some event during Harry
Sterling's tenure. It was promptly shot down because in those days USB was
limited to something like 12 megabits per second and was really for
keyboards and similar stuff. My retort fo "but hardware always evolves,
it'll get faster" was dismissed. That's ok, back in 1997 most people didn't
even know what USB was and I didn't consider that we would have thumbdrives
with multiple gigabytes of storage within 10 years.

I still remember the Eagle 8 pack which provided 4GB of storage in one
cabinet the size of a double door refrigerator and the weight of one, if it
were filled with steel pellets.

What will we be looking at in 2017? Multi-terabytes chips with wireless
access?

Denys

-----Original Message-----
From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:HP3000-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Craig Lalley
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 7:54 PM
To: HP3000-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] newbie question -storing a file from tape to disk -

"Johnson, Tracy" <Tracy.Johnson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: And your average
3rd party backup software will also have this feature
for its own product.

Too bad USB ports never made to the HP3000, we could have had a lot of
fun there with thumb drives as User Volumes or as other storage media.



Tracy,

Keven Miller has graciously volunteered to write a USB driver... in his free
time.

-Craig


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