A12, I found the link you quoted.
http://www.googez.com/2010/01/back-in-ti...ard-disk-drive/That was a hard drive system, not tapes. I wonder about that info. It also has this:
Quote:
The IBM 350 disk system stored 5 million
8-bit (7-bits plus 1 odd parity bit) characters.
also this
http://www.cedmagic.com/history/ibm-305-ramac.html
Quote:
The capacity of the entire disk file was 5 million 7-bit characters, which works out to about 4.4 MB in modern parlance.
and a site that has a list of known (7) of these!
http://ed-thelen.org/RAMAC/index.html
