My first contact with an IBM computer was a 1401...we got a 360-20 after... if
I remember the correct model.
Ricardo Krigun
On Friday, June 27, 2025 at 01:35:19 p.m. EDT, Seymour J Metz
<[email protected]> wrote:
14xx, 7010, 7070, 7040, 7044, 7074, 7080, 7090, 7094 for sure; maybe 7030. The
7072 used the slower 7330.
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A 729 was the tape device for a 7080/7090/7094. 1410 too IIRC.
Watch Nighthawks with Sly Stallone sometime. 360/30 and 2401's in that,
and a 1403/2540. Not seen much but it's there. I set them up.
Warehouse on 39th Street on the west side of Manhattan.
Doug Fuerst
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>From "Seymour J Metz" <[email protected]>
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Date 6/27/2025 12:56:15 PM
Subject Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: 3420 environmentals?
>ITYM a card sorter. Later on a 727, or a 729 if you're lucky.
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>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.
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>Or with the 3480 autoloaders, "Hey look, it automatically loaded the next
>tape!" Ooh, ahh! Don't get me wrong, they were a cool technology upgrade but
>pretty unimpressive to watch them in action compared to seeing the 3420s
>start/stop and hearing the flapping sound when a tape rewound off the takeup
>spool.
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>Rex
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>Ah, makes a LOT more sense to show something on a reel drive! On 34x0 it's
>more like "Listen, you can hear the tape rewinding..."
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>> With 3480s one could make an interesting "show" for visiting executives.
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>ITYM 3420 or older.
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>> Remember the oscillating sort?
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>I suspect that most folks here are too young for oscillating or poly.
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>>3420 tape drive had power supplied by IBM 3803 Tape Control. 3420
>>itself haven´t a direct connection to an installation energy point, 3803 has
>>it.
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>I remember the bunches of cables involved with the 3420s+3803, but I did not
>remember the exact arrangement. As we have said, it was a long time ago. (And
>yes, the 3490-type tape cartridges are as handy — except it was seldom that
>there were as many of these just lying around waiting to be used. Of course,
>that depended on the type of installation involved, etc, etc.)
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>With 3480s one could make an interesting "show" for visiting executives.
>Remember the oscillating sort?
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