Vintage IBM 3850 data storage cylinders Introduction
Vintage IBM 3850 data storage cylinders.
These are 1970s-era mass-storage units,
each containing a long strip of magnetic tape
holding 50MBytes of data.
More info at these articles:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_3850
https://ub.fnwi.uva.nl/computermuseum/remarkable.html