The 3480 was the first to use chrome tape, and each one of those cartridges held 200MB and operated at 3MB per second. The system replaced the 3420 which had 10 inch tape reels that held 160MB and could only do 1.25MB per second. The 8 drive configuration shown in this video cost around $238,000 back in the day and between all the drives, it could hold 1.6GB at once.
Yep, definitely over today's bloated systems with ugly and clumsy UI design and working slower than those due to unprofessional software design, regardless of having thousandsfold more hardware performance.
Very similar, yes. LTO is the current format and is the great grandchild of the 3480 tapes. Now up to 18TB or so, maybe more soon. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_Tape-Open
I bet no one ever turned that drive operator panel. So janky! This looks like the most complicated cartridge tape system in histroy. "U" meas unprotected... of course "P" would mean protected... NOPE!! "F" means protected 😂
Good job watching the video. You clearly listened to the part where it was explained F means file-protected, which is a term dating from the 1950s, and is used because there's a distinction between write-protect and erase-protect.
@@maskddingo1779 today is impossible to be programmer. I start with win95, I not know english. I speak spanish . I have to learn english and after understand computer structure. now I am programmer or engeneer of software. I lost 20 year my live to learn😂😂😂😂
The 3480 was the first to use chrome tape, and each one of those cartridges held 200MB and operated at 3MB per second. The system replaced the 3420 which had 10 inch tape reels that held 160MB and could only do 1.25MB per second. The 8 drive configuration shown in this video cost around $238,000 back in the day and between all the drives, it could hold 1.6GB at once.
Nice tutorial! These tape machines were extremely reliable but still a lot of work dealing with separate cartridges.
I desire such a device.
Yep, definitely over today's bloated systems with ugly and clumsy UI design and working slower than those due to unprofessional software design, regardless of having thousandsfold more hardware performance.
Fascinating.
If emergency switch fails to work, using one hand jerk the plug out the wall.
The woman looks hugely annoyed in every shot...
She is professional.
@@mikakorhonen5715 Professionally annoyed.
Now is all in a land fill.
...or ground up and turned into something more useful like a boat anchor.
Same tape still in use but now robots move the tapes.
Really?!
@@gregjones3660 Yes for cold backup
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_Tape-Open
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Very similar, yes. LTO is the current format and is the great grandchild of the 3480 tapes. Now up to 18TB or so, maybe more soon.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_Tape-Open
My one drive holds more than that whole room of drives.
3:20 no message for jammed tape?
👍✨️
T means toss the cartage across the room.
Uhm, what?
I bet no one ever turned that drive operator panel. So janky! This looks like the most complicated cartridge tape system in histroy. "U" meas unprotected... of course "P" would mean protected... NOPE!! "F" means protected 😂
Good job watching the video. You clearly listened to the part where it was explained F means file-protected, which is a term dating from the 1950s, and is used because there's a distinction between write-protect and erase-protect.
@@straightpipediesel It's still poor UX design, much like early MacOS dragging a floppy to the trash to eject.
please help me
What do you need help with?
@@ICANanimationsI’d assume he’d need help with the IBM 3480 magnetic tape subsystem
@@nyccollin @ICANanimations @SnowyPup He has been waiting for two years already. We should help him. 🧙♂
how nice. operator is woman . not programmer man . no GUI no comman MS-DOS.
She is programming
@@Djmaxofficial 😆😆😆😄😄 🖒
They wanted to show how easy it was to use... "if a woman can do it..." mentality. Not great.
@@maskddingo1779 today is impossible to be programmer.
I start with win95, I not know english. I speak spanish . I have to learn english and after understand computer structure. now I am programmer or engeneer of software. I lost 20 year my live to learn😂😂😂😂
@@Djmaxofficial That's why the perpetually annoyed expression. (Job description said programmer, and I have to do all this SysOp garbage myself.)
Overcomplicated goofiness
No wonder they are irrelevant now
All needlessly complicated and designed by engineers, never once tested on a real user