Bob Rosenbloom wrote:
Anyone collect Amdahl stuff?
I was talking to a chap the other day who came to drop off bits of an IBM 3850
mass storage system*; he was ex-Amdahl and by the sounds of it some of their
systems were pretty darn nice. Lots of gold content though (although I gather
that's less true of the later systems - maybe this one's light enough on gold
that the scrappers won't get it)
* One of these:
http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/storage/storage_3850.html
... sadly all he had was the tape head assembly and a couple of cartridges,
although the mechanism's pretty darn impressive. Would be nice to see a whole
tape silo / robot assembly functioning, though :-)