Who Loves IBM Tape?

Brent Hilpert hilpert at cs.ubc.ca
Sun Jul 17 11:38:53 CDT 2016


On 2016-Jul-17, at 9:23 AM, Jason T wrote:

> A very nice IBM 3480 brochure ended up in my hands yesterday and I had
> to bump it to the top of the scan queue:
> 
> https://archive.org/details/IBM3480MagneticTapeSubsystemBrochure
> 
> Lots of nice shots of IBM data center tape equipment as well as a cool
> "history of tape at IBM" set of pages.  I've never heard of 7340
> Hypertape.

Great looking brochure.

I'd have difficulty getting to it right now as most everything is packed away, but I have a mid-60s IBM brochure that presents an overview of IBM computer equipment, in the section on tape they present the hypertape cartridges as the latest development.


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