Latest intelligence on those mysterious IBM 3380 AAF and B4F disk drives (CI No 619) is that they now have prices – which fall between those of the current AD4 and BD4, and the AE and BE dual-capacity 3380 models: the AAF is UKP86,711, the B4F is UKP68,051; the AD4 is UKP68,882 and the BD4 UKP52,000; the AE is UKP92,720 and the BE UKP75,996; no-one has yet been found at IBM who knows anything about them, and disk drive guru Jim Porter of Disk/Trend – who has forgotten more about disk drives than even IBM will never know – has never heard of them.
