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Created page with "Tape storage was the mass storage medium of choice for IBM's midrange machines starting with the System/38. Todo: Let's link in part numbers here == 9-Track == === System/38 === what were the /370 drives it could use? === System/36 === There was a 9-track option and vax11 has one... what was it === AS/400 === * 9348 Tape Drive == QIC == === System/36 === * 6157 Streaming Tape Drive * There was a QIC option in some 5363s and Y10s, what is it? === AS/400..."
 
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== 8mm / Exabyte ==
=== AS/400 ===
* 6390, internal 8mm tape drive, 7/14GB, half height, PN 16G6685
* 7208-001, 1GB? external, HVD only!
* 7208-002, 2GB? external, HVD only!


=== IBM iSeries ===
=== IBM iSeries ===

Revision as of 22:31, 14 June 2025

Tape storage was the mass storage medium of choice for IBM's midrange machines starting with the System/38.

Todo: Let's link in part numbers here

9-Track

System/38

what were the /370 drives it could use?

System/36

There was a 9-track option and vax11 has one... what was it

AS/400


QIC

System/36

AS/400

  • QIC-150
  • QIC-525
  • QIC-1000
  • QIC-2G-4G
  • QIC-4G-8G

8mm / Exabyte

AS/400

  • 6390, internal 8mm tape drive, 7/14GB, half height, PN 16G6685
  • 7208-001, 1GB? external, HVD only!
  • 7208-002, 2GB? external, HVD only!

IBM iSeries

  • MLR / SLR


LTO

AS/400

  • Unofficially, certain first-generation AS/400s can talk to certain Quantum LTO1 and LTO2 tape drives.

IBM iSeries

Power Systems