Tape Drives
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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
- 6157 Streaming Tape Drive
- There was a QIC option in some 5363s and Y10s, what is it?
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.
