[geeks] Gold archival CDs?

Mon May 22 13:26:28 CDT 2006

On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 11:36:38AM -0500, Lionel Peterson wrote:

> As I recall, teh AT&T Plan 9 project had an interesting
> filesystem/archival process that involved slowly migrating data from
> local "near off-line" storage (magneto-optical jukeboxes, IIRC).

Copied from IBM's  Mass Storage Subsystem (MSS) from the late 1970's.

Automagicly archived data from disk drives to little magnetic tape 
cartridges in a library. A robotic arm retrieved the tape from the library,
and loaded it into a disk drive. Different from previous systems because
it had two dimensional storage, looked like a large honeycomb as the tape
cartidges were hexagonal.

Geoff.
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