IBM 3340 direct access storage facility

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Date
1973
Credit Line
Courtesy of the IBM Corporate Archive
Copyright Owner
© International Business Machines Corporation (IBM)
Object ID
500004511

This Winchester technology drive array was IBM’s last storage system with large removable disk packs. Strings of 2 to 8 3340 drives could be attached to an IBM mainframe computer, providing a storage capacity of up to 280 million bytes per string.