Anybody live in Chile?

[Mike Loewen]

On Mon, 12 Sep 2005, Tore S Bekkedal wrote:

> "...the Type 726 tape units used in the 701 computer system, produced in
> 1953. They operated at 75 ips, with a tape-recording density of 100bpi."
>
> http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/701/701_1415bx26.html
>
> and as this picture shows, it was vacuum-column.

    The SAGE system (AN/FSQ-7) used the same IBM type 727 tape drives as 
used in the IBM 650:

http://www.columbia.edu/acis/history/650.html


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