RE: Floppy drives on ancient AS/400's -- MIDRANGE-L

In the late 80's our S/38 had the below.

8" floppy - Used for system maintenance.
Card punch - created 40 col card for customer's payment due amount.
Card reader - read the 40 col customer payment.
Reel to reel - Read telephone toll tapes sent in by various companies for processing.
- Created tape of telephone unbillable tolls, sent back to various companies.
- Created tape of customers bills, sent to service bureau for printing.
- Used to back up the system.
- the Reel to reel was also used on the AS/400 up through the late 90's

Paul

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We had the $4,000+ 8" diskette drive to assist with our S/36 migration.

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Hello,

out of curiosity: Do you remember floppy drives on the AS/400? Were these SCSI drives? How were the drives different from, say, drives found on CP/M machines of that era? Information I found in the CISC system builder weren't too much helpful.

Any comments are well-appreciated. Thanks!

:wq! PoC

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