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I worked on this product in IBM. Well actually i worked on the software to make it usable - DFSMSrmm. i went to IBM San Jose in February 1992 to package DFSMSrmm up for maintenance and development. One of the IBM technical writers in SJ was an artist and she made the team "i survived the ATL" T shirts - I still have mine in my closet. My contribution is that I wrote the EDGTSO command line processor, i wrote all the ISPF dialog and screens, i also wrote the EDGINERS tape initialization and security erase utility and I wrote the EDGMUPD maintenance job that you would run each night to run various housekeeping functions.

How to get this GUI, which cables do we have to connect?

Where’s the turbulence ffs!

hi i want my data i dont mind if it takes a few hours

I think it's fair to say you've cornered the elusive market of people who are fascinated by IBM tape storage robots and vintage tractors.

Anthony - long time

Yeah okay acid burn, thats enough

Fucking hell just a few minutes of a shaky takeoff...

The video sure looks like it was done with a NewTek Video Toaster... good old Amiga.

Possible Yamaha FM 7

I have one for my home network. Unfortunately, I now have to keep my bedroom door locked.

Imagine this at night!

Wow! Rough turbulence over Dallas!

Very impressive technology for 1992 !

I WANT one! ... So I'm going to build my own (albeit much smaller)

who did the music

interesting retrieval robot; who knew IBM's tape archives was THAT immense?

Did first one in USA, the amazing Anthony for so many others. Painewebber

dat midi keyboard sexy sounds like FM or Ad-lib

Anyone know what this music is?

If a HAL9000 gets control of that robot arm then watch out!

More than tension it is more frustration over PAX getting up during turbulence. I am a flight attendant with almost 22 years of service. Too bad the video was too short

Back in 1993, I installed 2 3495 at a French customer. When the 'animal' boots, the robot check the vision system by looking at 4 bare code labels stuck on it. I always imagined that it was looking at it's own belly button . Also, with the customer team we planned to affix 3 peacock feathers on the waist of the robot to make it look like a French cancan dancing girl. Old memories....

So sexy :)

serious tape rig

When power is restored, if the on buttons are on, then the machine will power on automatically. Your comment about the flat batteries is correct. This is described in the Storwize V7000 Information Center under "Maintenance discharge cycles"

When Power is restored after maintenance, does the cluster start automatically or is manual intervention required? From what I have read, if you do not shutdown the unit the way you describe the cache battery can run flat (if extended outage). When Power is restored IO will not be served until the batteries are recharged (mentions .. could be hours). Good to know.

The robot was a Fanec industrial robot that was used in car manufacture. I think IBM ran out of robots or Fanec stopped making that model, which sped up the switch to the smaller 3494, which went on to drive STK out of business.

I remeber our IBM rep explaining this to me, I had to fight to stop smiling. I finally asked if it went through a lot of brakes (my understanding was the robot was an automotive painting robot). His reply was "No, but we did have problems with fragile cracks on the rails"

A modern cheap avr could do the same, and if you also get an intern you could make him move 300 grams

:) hmm I Want one ... With the Light it almost seems human and friendly (Warm) ... But can it pick up my room? :(

@BoardOfRandomosity Scary thought! There were interlocks to prevent this. I suppose you could just jump on the robot and go for a ride...

So, if you were inside of this, fixing it, and some moron turned it on, would you die?

He he... unfair... it could move two 300gram carts at once!

300kg robot to move 300g cartridge.:)

Beautiful.