Re: The writing has been on the wall for a while now.
I guess that's why people think it must be dead.
Meanwhile, for people how don't take uncited facts to be true, you can google some other IBM enterprise tape drives from the list below:
3480, 3480 IDRC, 3490, 3490E, 3590......., TS1120, TS1130, TS1140, TS1150.
Since the "last drive" which could store 200 MB per cartridge you can now do 10 TB per cartridge (50K improvement since the last tape drive invented) and that's before what the lab guys and girls are working on (in theory 220TB cartridge as a tech demonstration in 2015).
Obviously LTO never happened either. 7 times so far.....
Biting the hand that feeds IT
