On Fri, 2024-04-12 at 10:47 +0100, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote: > On Thu, 11 Apr 2024 at 19:32, Van Snyder via cctalk< > cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > An IBM salesman convinced them to try out a 360/30 with a Data > > Cell. > > No idea what a "data cell" is. > I found this: > https://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia/term/data-cell > > At the Eastercon last week, I met a chap who learned to code on an > IBM1620. He told me of a terrible, terrible storage device which used > arobot to load strips of magtape. Cheap but a horrendous failure > rate.Is it this thing?
That's the data cell I mentioned.
