Craig Lalley wrote





I used to do that a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.

The IBM would create the tape, and then the 3000 would read the tape and
create invoices, using those big ?2680A? printers?

As for reading the tape we used FCOPY with the EBCDIC option and I believe
the blocking factor must be known, but it's been awhile.

-Craig


John Lee <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Is anybody reading IBM 3480 tapes into an HPUX or MPE box? I have a need
to do so and am wondering how you're doing it.
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I think everyone is missing what John's asking.  He isn't asking how you
read an IBM tape, he's asking how to read a 3480 tape, a cartridge format
that has only minimal support on the 3000 and I don't know about the 9000.
 However if you read

http://raven.utc.edu/cgi-bin/WA.EXE?A2=ind0306D&L=hp3000-l&P=R11049

You'll find I wrote


You may be able to put a 3480/3490 drive on your 3000.  HP has supported
the 3480 drive on the 900 series machines (not A & N class) through 6.5.
It may also work on 7.0 and 7.5.  A 3490 is supposed to be a 3480 with
data compression.  The drives are made by StorageTek and are obsolete,
though I suspect you can get one if you want.

Michael Berkowitz / Project Manager
CGS / BlueCherry
213 614-1300 x269
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