8 Apr
2019
8 Apr
'19
6:40 p.m.
On 04/08/2019 06:10 PM, Tom Gardner via cctalk wrote:
FWIW the tape drive is an IBM 2315 announced April 16,
1965 <https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/dpd50/dpd50_chronology3.html> for
use on low end S/360s. Here is a brochure
<http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/IBM-ProdAnn/2415.pdf> as well as manuals at
http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/2415/
So, is that a capstan and pinch roller drive? I'd kind of
guess so, if announced in 1965.
(for future readers, 2315 is apparently a typo, 2415 would
fit in with 24xx models being tape drives, 23xx was for disks.)
Jon