On 13 October 2017 at 18:47, Phil Smith III <li...@akphs.com> wrote: > Anyone know if Sterling Forest still has 3420s? Last time I was there > (2004?) they did, and even a 7-track drive IIRC.
Also in 2004 I was surprised to see a short string of 3420 drives, all powered up and lights on, at one of our UK banking customers. I asked, and it seems they were used only for data exchange. A nightly courier would arrive from each of the other big banks with tapes, and be dispatched with the ones from this bank. I had a vision, perhaps not inaccurate, of each bank having such a dusty set of drives used only for the same purpose. Maybe someone at a UK bank can tell us if that scheme survives today... Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
