12 Apr
2024
12 Apr
'24
5:31 a.m.
On Apr 12, 2024, at 5:47 AM, Liam Proven via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
On Thu, 11 Apr 2024 at 19:32, Van Snyder via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> 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.
paul
An IBM salesman convinced them to try out a 360/30 with a Data Cell.
No idea what a "data cell" is.
I found this:
https://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia/term/data-cell
At the Eastercon last week, I met a chap who learned to code on an IBM
1620. He told me of a terrible, terrible storage device which used a
robot to load strips of magtape. Cheap but a horrendous failure rate.
Is it this thing?