On Thu, 11 Apr 2024 at 19:32, Van Snyder via cctalk
<cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:

>
> An IBM salesman convinced them to try out a 360/30 with a Data Cell.

No idea what a "data cell" is.

I found this:

https://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia/term/data-cell

At the Eastercon last week, I met a chap who learned to code on an IBM
1620. He told me of a terrible, terrible storage device which used a
robot to load strips of magtape. Cheap but a horrendous failure rate.
Is it this thing?

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