24 Feb
2000
24 Feb
'00
12:11 p.m.
On Thu, Feb 24, 2000 at 08:44:23AM -0600, McFadden, Mike wrote:
I seem to remember, from some movie, some sort of
robot
arm storage device that picked cylindrical cartridges out of a honeycomb
structure and inserted them in to a reader/writer. Very large storage,
about 360 GB, late 80's early 90's time frame.
Any information would be approciated
I can't shed any light except to say that I've heard the same thing.
The person who told me about them (and yes this would have been mid/late
80s) had worked for a large IBM mainframe installation (Oklahoma dept. of
transportation IIRC, I can't believe there's so much computing to do for
that but who knows, he said they had a bunch of 3081s), and he specifically
mentioned the robotic picker. I *think* he said the actual storage medium
was some kind of filament contained inside the can but I could be wrong.
John Wilson
D Bit