Re: Tape or Other Media / Common

[Chuck Morehead <cbmorehead@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Debbie,

It depends on what industry (or specific companies) as to what they are
using.  I belive the most common tape I see hanging around for this purpose
is the 3480/3490/3490e style.

Chuck

----- Original Message -----
From: "Debbie Panco" <dpanco43@ix.netcom.com>
To: "MIDRANGE" <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 8:44 AM
Subject: Tape or Other Media / Common


> List Members,
>   We are getting ready to upgrade our machine and are taking
> the opportunity to review our external media choices.  We
> currently use a Magstar drive and an 8M tape drive.   We use
> our external media to interface with other computers, quite
> often non-AS400 (IBM mainframes and such).  Our understanding
> is that the Magstar is only an "AS400 world" drive.
>    We would like to make sure that our media choice would be
> something that would be commonly used by the rest of the
> computing community so that our interfacing options will not be
> hampered or limited and that it will not just simply become
> obsolete in the near future.
>    What is your input as far as what is most commonly used or
> preferred in the rest of the non-AS400 world?   Are people getting
> away from tape drives and cartridges entirely?  Are they gravitating
> to CD's or other media?   Just trying to gather some other opinions
> and see what the rest of the world has to say.
>
> Thanks much,
>
> Deborah Panco
> Senior Systems Analyst / Project Leader
> United Consumer Financial Services
> dpanco43@ix.netcom.com
> 440-835-6674
>
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