12 Apr
2024
12 Apr
'24
3:07 p.m.
On 4/12/24 14:54, CAREY SCHUG via cctalk wrote:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_IBM_products for
genuine ibm devices.
Calcomp (and others?) had automated tape libraries for reel to reel taps.
The cartridge tape library that staged onto 3350s (and
later 3380s?)
The beer-can-in-a-beehive 3850 MSS, perhaps? At a trade show where the
thing was being demonstrated (NCC perhaps?), I remember the presenter
saying that the advantage of two "picker" assemblies was that one could
push the other out of the way should it stop working.
MPI/CDC did offer a competing product, but I don't recall the number.
--Chuck