Old tape drive proves its worth

Sridhar Ayengar ploopster at gmail.com
Mon Nov 10 21:13:14 CST 2008


Antonio Carlini wrote:
> http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/11/10/2415393.htm
> 
> An IBM729 Mark 5 tape drive grabbed the data for NASA.
> 
> I presume that this implies NASA had tried and failed to find such a
> drive via IBM?

I doubt it.  If you throw enough money at them, they'll *build you a new 
one*.

Peace...  Sridhar


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