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

AS/400

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

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