21 Sep
2004
21 Sep
'04
5:37 p.m.
On Tuesday 21 September 2004 22:21, William Donzelli wrote:
My former shop is scheduled to retire a bunch of 3390's at the end of this
year. But they said that last year too and the conversion hasn't been
going too well.
Two 3420
drives and 3803 controller, in Maine USA.
It seems that the last of the 1/2 inch tapes are finally coming out of
service in the mainframe shops. I have been noticing less and less of
the 3420s in the scrapyards, and pretty soon, they will be gone. One
things I regret never acting on is a 3380/3880 DASD (that is hard disk
in Big Blue) system - they were very abundant in the scrap yards five
years ago, but now are basically not to be found. I am happy that my 3420 setup popped up in Manhattan
not far from me.
The whole deal worked out pretty well - they keep wanting me to come
back and take stuff, for free!
William Donzelli
aw288(a)osfn.org
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