Pleas ID this IBM system....
Jon Elson
elson at pico-systems.com
Mon Apr 8 20:40:20 CDT 2019
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/
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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
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