Ed, Let me go fetch a grain of salt.
And you want me to believe that in 1970 there was OS/360 running with ESCON connected to 3330 DASD drives deep under the White House. And that IBM lab was the one with the Electron Microscope. I'm sort of amazed that in 1974 IBM could reconstruct overwritten DASD tracks from the White house, but they could not recover 18 minutes of audio tape!!! Perhaps they should have sent those to IBM as well. I honestly believe your friend was pulling your leg (to put it nicely). Ron > also told me about the computer room deep underneath the White House that > housed the IBM system(s). He told me they were using fiber optics for channels > at least 10 years before they became generally available to us. > > Like I said he did not go into specifics on a lot of the recovery and I > assumed it was "secret". I did ask a few questions and phrased them as what > if's so as not to try and get into trouble. I do remember distinctly that IBM > was really involved in attempting to get the data back and they did take the > drives back to the labs (at least the ones that contained data). I do not > remember if this was in CA or NY to be honest. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
