Tape Drives

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

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

IBM iSeries

• MLR / SLR

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!

LTO

AS/400

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