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[Zane H. Healy]

At 5:41 PM -0400 9/26/07, William Donzelli wrote:
>  > Out of curiosity, am I correct that the three storagetek tape
>>  libraries actually take up more space than the mainframe and drive
>>  array?
>
>Probably - but that is not weird. Even in the old days the tape and
>disk farms were bigger than the processors.

Depends on the system, on the Honeywell DPS-8 Mainframes I worked on 
the CPU's took up more space than the tape drives.  Now disk drives 
were another matter, at least on the production system. :^)  They 
took up a majority of the computer room space.

		Zane


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