ADIC Switches manual Cartridges, 6 I/O unit

2.4.6I/O unit

The I/O unit facilitates inserting and ejecting cartridges without inter- rupting normal processing (☞ Figure 2-5:).

Figure 2-5: I/O unit/E

2.5Cartridges

Each cartridge in the AML/J system can have an external user and machine readable label for identifying the Volsers (Volume Serial Number). The external label contains between one and 16 characters for the Volser. The Volser is composed of the uppercase letters A-Z and the numbers 0-9. The AML/J system supports different types of label (e.g. “Code 39” and “STK”).

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March 31, 1999