26 Sep
2007
26 Sep
'07
10:58 p.m.
At 5:41 PM -0400 9/26/07, William Donzelli wrote:
Depends on the system, on the Honeywell DPS-8 Mainframes I worked on
the CPU's took up more space than the tape drives. Now disk drives
were another matter, at least on the production system. :^) They
took up a majority of the computer room space.
Zane
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Out of
curiosity, am I correct that the three storagetek tape
libraries actually take up more space than the mainframe and drive
array?
Probably - but that is not weird. Even in the old days the tape and
disk farms were bigger than the processors.