[Arkansas Toothpick]

I didn’t even know that they still used tape, much less making new products!

[USS Alaska]

I didn’t even know that they still used tape, much less making new products!

I sold the first key to tape devise back in the 60s, the Mohawk Data Sciences, data recorder.

Instead of punching holes 80 column cards the data was written directly to tape.

Management of the large key punch shops {most were union} loved me because it increase productivity 3-4 times.

The unions hated us because the operator positions were cut by a factor of 60-75%.

Even back then, unions were luddites.

Back then, Pittsburgh was my sales area and the unions were first formed in the city and were {and still are} very strong.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

My company stated in 2005 that "tape is dead".
Which effectively made my days numbered since that was the meat and potatoes of the product I was trained to work on.

I asked my manager to sign me up for any training on any new emerging products so I could be a SME. Worked like a charm.
Now with SS drives, it looks like the days of disks are numbered too. Time to re-train...again!