Description
This unit was developed to meet the need for automation, improved space efficiency and lower price for peripheral equipment, and was commercialized in 1979 for use with the HITAC M Series.
This was a completely new memory system enabling storage ranging from 35GB (gigabytes) in the smallest configuration to 236GB in the largest configuration. The memory media was magnetic tape cartridges with a capacity of 50MB (megabytes) each.
