At one shop, before we moved to cartridge, we had 3420s that were so 'obsolete' that spare parts became prohibitively expensive. On more than one occasion, our loyal CE team carved replacement parts out of wood (!) to extend the lifespan of decrepit drives.
. . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile 626-543-6132 Office ⇐=== NEW [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Seymour J Metz Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2020 3:41 PM To: [email protected] Subject: (External):Re: Remember the 9370? CAUTION EXTERNAL EMAIL 3420? Wasn't that well and truly obsolete? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Carmen Vitullo <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2020 10:44 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Remember the 9370? We had 2 9370's that I recall @ the Boeing Helicopters site in Philly, both running VSE IIRC, one in the computer room for a DOD project and one black box project neither were network connected - the engineers and admins (SYSPROGS) had to carry updates into the computer room, but they were on round reel tapes ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
