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

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Subject: Re: Floppy drives on ancient AS/400's
From: "Larry \"DrFranken\" Bolhuis" <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 21 May 2021 14:04:39 -0400
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3490 was a cartridge drive.

On 5/21/2021 2:00 PM, Rob Berendt wrote:

I think ours was 4U and you could slide it out when it was working. It had a clear top and after you slid the reel in it was fun to watch it try to autoload the free floating end on to the take up reel.

IBM did have this huge 3phase vertical tape drive for the AS/400. We even rewired the computer room to 3 phase to get ready for it but we never got it. Was that the 3490?

Rob Berendt

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