🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1495@cps3xx.UUCP>, usenet@cps3xx (Usenet file owner) writes:
>ehrlich@shire.cs.psu.edu (Dan Ehrlich) says:
>> Just a note of warning.  IBM has started selling a new model streaming tape
>> drive that will read QIC-24 tapes but writes tapes at a density that Suns,
>> and any other catridge drive I have access to, won't read.  I think it is
>> named the 6157 Model 2.  Another good move on IBM's part.

>The 6157 Model 2 can get about three times the amount of data on a
>cartridge tape as opposed to the 6157 model 1. That is very useful...

>As the 6157-002 uses the same controller card as the
>6157, in those rare instances that we need to write a low density tape,
>we just plug a 6157 into the back of our machine. The 6157-002 was a
>good move and not a bad move.

Get a grip!  How about if IBM just produced a tape unit that was
COMPATABLE with the REST OF THE WORLD?  Or did both?  How about if you
drop by our lab once a week so we can plug your 6157 in when we need
to write standard tapes?

IBM: "Oh yes, we run OPEN SYSTEMS, we are STANDARD!"
PSU: "Ok, then why can't our Suns read your tapes?"
IBM: "Suns?  You have to buy ALL IBM equippment, of course!"
PSU: "Riiiight..."
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Scott Schwartz		<schwartz@shire.cs.psu.edu>