Date: | c. 1966 |
Material: | Photographic film, plastic container |
Dimensions: | 3⅞ × 11⁄16 × 19⁄16 in. (98 × 26 × 40 mm) |
Company: | IBM Inc. |
Location: | Armonk, New York, United States |
A high capacity storage cell for a robotic mass storage library. Each cell contained 32 silver-halide photographic film chips and held approximately 150 Mbits (18.7 GB). The entire system could hold up to 1 TB of data. Data was written with an electron beam and read using a CRT flying spot scanner and a photocell.