Paper tape is even cheaper, but I'm just being a smart a$$.  :-)

But seriously, I think that must be wrong if so many people are getting rid of 
tape drives.  But honestly, I haven't a clue about this stuff at all other than 
just thinking about it and reading posts.

Lindy

-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf 
Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
Sent: Monday, November 19, 2012 10:48 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: "New" way to do UCB lookups

In <[email protected]>,
on 11/19/2012
   at 02:44 PM, Lindy Mayfield <[email protected]> said:

>People still use tapes?

It's an inexpensive way to create media for backup.

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