Old tape drive proves its worth

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Doc Shipley wrote:
>> Tapes are history.
> 
>   Not hardly.  They've finally got stiff competition in off-site 
> spinning copies and second- and third-tier disk arrays, but they're a 
> long, long way from going away as production hardware.

IBM Poughkeepsie has a truly gigantic (thousands and thousands of square 
feet) customer tape pool.  Tapes are very much still in use.

Peace...  Sridhar