• By Lynn Peril
    Apr 21, 2008 1:22 PM 1,540
    read more: #retrofuturism, #ibmmainframe, #tapedrives, #vintagecomputers

    Gigantic Computers, Huge Reels of Tape - Remember the 80s?


    At my first office job in the mid-80s, we backed up the computer every night on reels of magnetic tape. Here, in a scene from a slide show of 1980s IBM mainframe computer ops (all set to a snappy Sousa-esque march), tape librarians and console operators show how they did it at a large data center - which makes the amount of complaining we did about having to do two measly cartridges pale in comparison.


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