12 Apr
2024
12 Apr
'24
10:42 a.m.
On Fri, 2024-04-12 at 10:47 +0100, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
On Thu, 11 Apr 2024 at 19:32, Van Snyder via
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cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
That's the data cell I mentioned.
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
IBM1620. He told me of a terrible, terrible storage device which used
arobot to load strips of magtape. Cheap but a horrendous failure
rate.Is it this thing?