On Thu, 21 Dec 2017 14:41:18 -0500, Edward Finnell wrote: >The CE's called them noodle snatchers...
The 2321 Data Cell was called a noodle snatcher. I never heard of a 3850 being called that. The 2321 was a much smaller device that sat in one frame, maybe 2 feet wide. When I worked at Wayne State University in the early 1970's, we had one. I saw the thing , but never saw it in operation. It used strips of magnetic media similar to tape, but much thicker, more like the media in a floppy disk than a tape. The strips were on the order of a foot long and a couple of inches wide. They were pulled up out of their storage container and wrapped around a spool to read and write them, then returned to their slot. Several people had strips that had been discarded for one reason or another, and at least one person had a strip that had been crumpled as it was being returned to its slot. The 3850 was much larger. When I was an Amdahl SE, one of my accounts had one. It was probably 20 feet long, maybe more. My impression was that it was a much improved version of the 2321. -- Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
