[email protected] (Graham Harris) writes:
> I recall Storagetek talking about RAIT around a decade ago.  Not sure if
> anything came of it in the mainframe space.  The concept seems to be 'out
> there' on other platforms.

re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#64 non-IBM: SONY new tape storage - 185 
Terabytes on a tape
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#65 non-IBM: SONY new tape storage - 185 
Terabytes on a tape
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#16 non-IBM: SONY new tape storage - 185 
Terabytes on a tape

note that cyclotomics was instrumental in reed-solomon error correcting
for cdrom standard ... was being used for communication before started
showing up in computer magnetic disk and other magnetic media.

when I was doing HSDT project inside IBM ... some past posts
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#hsdt

... had number of meetings with cyclotomics ... also one of the people
that got assigned to HSDT (inside IBM) had been reed's graduate student
at caltech/jpl and had done a lot of the work on reed-solomon (he had
been undergraduate at MIT ... and even remembered taking MIT class from
my wife's father)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed%E2%80%93Solomon_error_correction

during that period, cyclotomics was acquired by kodak (Berlekamp was one
of the cyclotomics founders) ... old email announcement of cyclotomics
talk at stanford
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005n.html#email860414

Error Correction with Reed-Solomon
http://www.drdobbs.com/testing/error-correction-with-reed-solomon/240157266

from above:

Reed-Solomon might well be the most ubiquitously implemented algorithm:
Barcodes use it; every CD, DVD, RAID6, and digital tape device uses it;
so do digital TV and DSL. Even in deep space, Reed-Solomon toils
away. Here's how it works its magic.

... snip ...

for little drift storagetek was acquired by sun which has since been
acquired by oracle:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#72 After the Sun (Microsystems) Sets, 
the Real Stories Come Out
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#73 After the Sun (Microsystems) Sets, 
the Real Stories Come Out

references:

After the Sun (Microsystems) Sets, the Real Stories Come Out
http://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/at-work/tech-careers/after-the-sun-microsystems-sets-the-real-stories-come-out

from above:

The IBM 360

The very first Sun workstations delivered to a major customer in May
1982 didn't run Unix; instead, they were used as IBM 360 terminal
emulators.

... snip ...

Storagetek had earlier acquired "Network Systems" ... that I had also
done quite a bit of work with during HSDT ... "Network Systems" had been
founded by Thorton ... who along with Cray had been responsible for 6600
at CDC.

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