Randy Kearns
Randy Kearns
believes dead division general head ibm meeting practice tape worked
I worked at IBM a long time, and I think it was 1974 that I was working in their general practice division in Colorado. The head of the general practice division said to us in an all-hands meeting there that IBM believes that tape is dead and (that) we should be getting out of tape.
copies
It's going to be the archives, and it's going to be the generational copies that they never get back.
automation element handle human main robotics tape
Tape automation is really going to be the main thing, in that you're going to see big libraries, the robotics in them to handle tapes, so we get the human element out as much as possible.
april launch
There's going to be a big launch that we're going to have on April 12.