Doc Shipley wrote:
Tapes are
history.
Not hardly. They've finally got stiff competition in off-site
spinning copies and second- and third-tier disk arrays, but they're a
long, long way from going away as production hardware.
IBM Poughkeepsie has a truly gigantic (thousands and thousands of square
feet) customer tape pool. Tapes are very much still in use.
Peace... Sridhar