Masstor data cartridges

From: Chuck McManis <cmcmanis_at_mcmanis.com>
Date: Thu Feb 24 19:55:38 2000

Ahh yes, the waay cool IBM MSS system. Used a robotic arm to pull a
cylinder that was then dumped into a reader and transferred _in bulk_ to an
attached 3380 disk drive that then was treated like available DASD storage.
Extremely cool, very big, and a kick to watch!

--Chuck

At 08:44 AM 2/24/00 -0600, you wrote:
>Hi all
>I just found 3 packages of Masstor data cartridges. They are cylindrical
>about 2 1/2 inches in diameter, about 4 inches long and look to be covered
>with some sort of oxide surface. They are hollow and have a kind of snap in
>connector on one end. I have examined the Web and the only references I
>find are for large mass storage devices for supercomputer and particle
>accelerator labs. 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
>
>Mike
>mmcfadden_at_cmh.edu
Received on Thu Feb 24 2000 - 19:55:38 GMT