Re: QIC Tape 'Survey'

[Larry Bolhuis <lbolhuis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Rob,

  Agreed, but for items like the Fax adapter replacements are available. Same
with the ASCII Workstation controller of days gone by. In both those cases
there might have been cables and such to change but not thousands of dollars
of archive media suddenly left unreadable. And in order to maintain them you
have to purchase a new tape drive prior to the upgrade, buy all new working
media for that and then buy all new archive media for that and then copy all
the tapes.

  I did have a few customers that missed their 8" diskettes but really they
hadn't seen significant use for years and years and certainly didn't contain
much in total volume.  The 13G QICs being put out to pasture prematurely are
customers mainline (and mostly ONLY) backup solution.

 - Larry

> Larry, you're restricting down the list of dropped hardware items to too
> small a field.
>
> Has IBM dropped other (x) devices from support even if all you've done is
> a software upgrade?
> 1)  Where x=blank.  Yes they have.  Integrated Fax adapters, firewalls,
> etc.
> 2)  Where x=Removable media.  Yes, they have.  8" diskette, 13gb QIC
> drive,
>
> Rob Berendt
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