David W Noon wrote:
I find it a little surprising that reel-to-reel tape was still being used in 2004 but, given that the HST alternative was really no better, I guess we should not be really surprised.
Earlier this year I was at a large datacenter and happened to wander into a room that time-warped me back to the mid 1990's. It was a tape room with 24-hour operators waiting for highlighted mount messages on maybe 10 separate z/OS consoles. An operator mentioned they had just gotten rid of their last round tapes 5 years earlier, which would be around 2012.
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