My college had a 370/125 and a single 3410/3411 tape drive. One model included the head-of-string controller, the other was the add-on drive.
Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Wednesday, November 12, 2025, 8:19 AM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2025 17:29:30 +0000 From: Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Ancient history: 3420s > 7330? You actually saw one in the flesh? 727, 729, 24xx, 34x0, yes, but no > 7330 or 7340. Yes, I used 7330s many times. Slower than a 729, with horizontal vacuum "columns." One unusual characteristic: a high-speed rewind was really "high speed" and ran off the end (actually the beginning) of the tape and sometimes "lost" a few inches of tape! They "looked" to be less expensive, but they worked well with 1410, 1401, and 7040 systems (where I used them). They might have been used with other base systems as well. Bill ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
