Storage Technology Corp’s Hinsdale, Illinois-based XL/Datacomp Inc will next quarter ship its Nearline Library System for IBM Corp AS/400 users. It comprises Nearline DMS Data Management Software, ACS 9708 Automated Cartridge System and LCU 9701 Library Control Unit. The Nearline DMS AS/400 application manages the moving of data between an automated cartridge system and the CPU. The ACS 9708, for all 9406 models and 9404 models D, E and F, provides two individually addressable 8mm helical scan tape drives and a robotic autoloader with 54-slot removable carousel for a total carousel capacity of 270Gb of uncompressed data. A fully configured system is from $65,825.
