Shmuel: I worked MVS at that time on a PC390 ...we had a 3800 and tape drives and a 3174 attached to it. Also BAR/RJE supported tape drives and of course various printers that were BUS/TAGGED into it
Scott J Ford Software Engineer http://www.identityforge.com ________________________________ From: Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) <shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net> To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Thursday, June 7, 2012 10:13 AM Subject: Re: Need a PC tape drive to read 3490, 3490E In <4fcf76bf.9040...@cbttape.org>, on 06/06/2012 at 11:26 AM, Sam Golob <sbgo...@cbttape.org> said: >Does anybody have a suggestion how I can get a tape drive to >attach to a PC so that I can read 3490, 3490E tapes, without my >having to spend a couple of thousand dollars? There used to be PC (SCSI?) drives that could handle old tapes, but I have no idea what they cost or whether they are still available. I've seen advertisements for everything from open reel to 3490E formats. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
