Forgive the top-posting on my own post, but I think it's appropriate: Evidently, the client used an MT/ST to emulate a 2741 and the organization had a S/360 with a 2495 Magnetc Cartridge Reader:
http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/IBM-ProdAnn/2495-5.pdf I have to confess that I've never seen one of these "in the flesh". I doubt that any exist today, but I'll be happily disabused of this notion. --Chuck On 12/18/2017 09:14 AM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: > Well, this is part of the job. I got the potential client to send a > photo of the cartridge--and he managed to get a 3480 cartridge for > comparison. > > It's clearly an IBM MT/ST cart: > > https://imgur.com/a/K9vyg > > Anyone around who can recover the data from these things? > > --Chuck