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On 5/21/21 10:26 AM, Steinmetz, Paul via MIDRANGE-L wrote:
In the late 80's our S/38 had the below.
8" floppy - Used for system maintenance.
Hmm. As it happens, the 4341 I mentioned in another thread had 8" floppy
drives buried inside at least one, and possibly several, of the cabinets.
BTW, are there any pictures of what a 1/2" reel tape drive even *looks
like* on an AS/400? Does it look like your typical mainframe tape drive,
vacuum columns and all? (I think the only place I can recall seeing tape
drives of that sort in operation, in person, is at the Computer History
Museum, in Mountain View, on their restored IBM 1401 [and maybe also
their restored PDP-1, although I think *that* uses a *punched paper
tape* drive]).
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JHHL
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