Exactly. And that gets us back to the original cartoon, where the tape drive was surely meant to represent a computer. Nowadays, of course, they show a desktop keyboard and CRT monitor--or MAYBE a laptop, though that's often harder to distinguish from a tablet, so the CRT lives, even though they're long dead.
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Jerry Whitteridge Sent: Friday, June 27, 2025 12:47 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: 3420 environmentals? There was a reason all those old movies, when they had to show a computer, showed a bank of 3420's all spinning the tapes. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
