[cctalk] Re: IBM 360

[Paul Koning via cctalk]

> On Apr 12, 2024, at 9:48 AM, Liam Proven via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> 
> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 12 Apr 2024 at 13:31, Paul Koning <paulkon...@comcast.net> wrote:
> 
>> Yes.  See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_2321_Data_Cell .  By the 
>> standards of the time it was an unusually high capacity storage device, way 
>> faster than a room full of tapes and much larger than the 2311 disk drive.
> 
> Fascinating. Thank you. It sounds truly awful. A device that
> effectively tries to push strips of tape into receptacles?

I suppose.  Or magnetic cards.  There were other devices that used magnetic 
cards, like the Olivetti Programma -- world's first programmable calculator.  
For that matter, magnetic cards are still around, they are called credit cards. 
 :-)

        paul