Re: Memories of Old IBM Equipment (Was: Jobs running withouta programstack) -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: Memories of Old IBM Equipment (Was: Jobs running withouta programstack)
From: James Lampert <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2008 09:45:19 -0800
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Graap, Kenneth wrote:

Our 3031 had a whole room full of IBM 3033 removable disk drives... Each
'disk pack' must have weighed a good 20 pounds too!

Yes. I never got a good look at the 370/135, but I'm pretty sure the disk subsystem on the 4341 was a 2- or maybe 4-drive 3033. I remember a power failure: the emergency head retract worked, but it jammed in the retracted position, and we had to get a technician out (from CDC!) to free it up before the system would IPL.

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