On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 7:33 PM, Edward Gould <[email protected]> wrote:
> Chales, > > 2321 was a data cell (magnetic strip) hardly could be called DASD) > Technically, it was because you could get to a particular "block" of data "directly" (DASD == Direct Access Storage Device) as opposed to a "serial" device like tape (no "seek" on the original tape drives). It definitely was wasn't a "random access" device because of the seek time (the same is true of all disk devices). SSD and Flash are possibly the only non-volatile true "random" access mass storage devices at present. And I'm not totally sure about them. > I don’t recall a 3314 . The removable 3340 (not sure the number anyone?) > > Ed > > -- The unfacts, did we have them, are too imprecisely few to warrant our certitude. Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
