In <[email protected]>, on
06/07/2012
at 08:43 AM, Scott Ford <[email protected]> said:
>I worked MVS at that time on a PC390 ...we had a 3800 and tape drives
>and a 3174 attached to it. Also BAR/RJE supported tape drives and of
>course various printers that were BUS/TAGGED into it
Aren't parallel channel adaptors a lot more expensive than SCSI
adaptors? Also, the PC tape drives I've seen advertised needed a lot
less real estate than the mainframe versions, and for one-time copying
I wouldn't expect performance to be an issue.
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