On 4/12/24 09:45, Christian Kennedy via cctalk wrote: > > On 4/12/24 05:31, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote > > [snip] >> 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. > While on the topic of odd IBM mass storage systems, does anyone recall > an IBM system that used rotating carousels holding sheets of magnetic > material? The carousel would rotate to position the selected sheet into > the read/write station, where it would be moved up and down relative to > the multiple fixed heads, a weird linear riff on a fixed head disk. > > LBL had one of these systems, installed in the same room as one of the > few examples of the IBM 1360 photo digital storage system. They kept a > broom next to the later in order to sweep up the photo chips when the > thing occasionally spewed them everywhere.
Isn't that the IBM 2321 Data Cell drive? Having one's files "photostored" at LLL was a chancy proposition. There were bootleg programs to access every file for a user, just to keep them from being consigned to the photostore. --Chuck
