Masstor data cartridges

From: John Wilson <wilson_at_dbit.dbit.com>
Date: Thu Feb 24 12:11:36 2000

On Thu, Feb 24, 2000 at 08:44:23AM -0600, McFadden, Mike wrote:
> I seem to remember, from some movie, some sort of robot
> arm storage device that picked cylindrical cartridges out of a honeycomb
> structure and inserted them in to a reader/writer. Very large storage,
> about 360 GB, late 80's early 90's time frame.
> Any information would be approciated

I can't shed any light except to say that I've heard the same thing.
The person who told me about them (and yes this would have been mid/late
80s) had worked for a large IBM mainframe installation (Oklahoma dept. of
transportation IIRC, I can't believe there's so much computing to do for
that but who knows, he said they had a bunch of 3081s), and he specifically
mentioned the robotic picker. I *think* he said the actual storage medium
was some kind of filament contained inside the can but I could be wrong.

John Wilson
D Bit
Received on Thu Feb 24 2000 - 12:11:36 GMT