IBM MT/ST recovery; was: IBM 3480 DEC TKZ60 inquiry
Chuck Guzis
cclist at sydex.com
Mon Dec 18 14:57:11 CST 2017
Forgive the top-posting on my own post, but I think it's appropriate:
Evidently, the client used an MT/ST to emulate a 2741 and the
organization had a S/360 with a 2495 Magnetc Cartridge Reader:
http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/IBM-ProdAnn/2495-5.pdf
I have to confess that I've never seen one of these "in the flesh". I
doubt that any exist today, but I'll be happily disabused of this notion.
--Chuck
On 12/18/2017 09:14 AM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
> Well, this is part of the job. I got the potential client to send a
> photo of the cartridge--and he managed to get a 3480 cartridge for
> comparison.
>
> It's clearly an IBM MT/ST cart:
>
> https://imgur.com/a/K9vyg
>
> Anyone around who can recover the data from these things?
>
> --Chuck
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