Naldru
Since: Aug, 2016
Dec 25th 2022 at 11:52:09 AM
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The spinning tape drives were usually a sort/merge task. This required a minimum of three tape drives, and frequently ran for over an hour. Since the sort/merge jobs ran on a schedule, it was easy to arrange for the creation of stock footage.
There were also sort/merge jobs using bank checks and punched cards. These were also used in older programming. As I recall, punched card sorting machines were used in the original opening for Mannix, although it might have had a magnetic tape sort/merge as well.
I saw myself buying a portable CD-RW reader to read old discs since my new pc no longer has a drive. I wonder if modern LTO tapes would ever use a tiny USB bandwidth to move several terabytes of data. PCI express cards, maybe? Something using straight fiber?
Even so, near-online systems use hard drives. Dense hard drives, but still spinning rust. THEN, people send it to archive in LTO tapes.