12 Apr
2024
12 Apr
'24
6:56 a.m.
No worse than automatic tape loaders that push a long strip of tape trough various feeds
and onto a takeup reel where it is made to stick. at least each of these strips had a
handle on it.
In later years all serious computer tape drives had autoloaders, and I think a few for
high end consumer tape recorders.
<pre>--Carey</pre>
On 04/12/2024 8:48 AM CDT Liam Proven via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
On Fri, 12 Apr 2024 at 13:31, Paul Koning <paulkoning(a)comcast.net> wrote:
Yes. See also
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_2321_Data_Cell . By the standards of the time it was an
unusually high capacity storage device, way faster than a room full of tapes and much
larger than the 2311 disk drive.
Fascinating. Thank you. It sounds truly awful. A device that
effectively tries to push strips of tape into receptacles?
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