On 2/5/2016 8:16 AM, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 2:48 AM, Mike Loewen<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> The drives appear to be IBM 3420s, but with an additional box on top,
>labeled "SMS". The system itself doesn't appear in any of the shots. Some
>sort of IBM 370, perhaps?
Funny that the SMS box shows "INNPUT" - it looks like it was written
by a Norwegian with limited English skills.
(Norwegian "inn" is the same as English "in")
A friend who worked on a system with the SMS device software sent this:
They're 3420s with the SMS boxes on top. The SMS boxes were hooked to a
controller that looked like a console to the 370. The console got tape
messages and would display which tape volumes were to be mounted on each
drive.
The picture with a volume named INNPUT is someones idea of a joke, since
tape volume names were 6 characters. The volumes had to be labeled with
a utility and JCL had to be written to call for the volume.
The tape label utility was IEHINITT.
Thanks
Jim
