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Modular Tape Drive Libraries
A very niche type of device that integrates a large amount of tape-based drives together, for the purpose of archival and storage. Due to their uncommon and “corporate” usage, it is hard to determine what CPU architectures and OSes are common, although it is likely that Unix-based OSes are at least somewhat prevalent.
Sun StorageTek SL3000
Operating Systems (Intel Atom D2550)
Debian Linux (+Doom)
panel computer had easy access to BIOS and I just netbooted Debian; typically runs Oracle Linux
An unexpected computer placed on a big set of tape drives. Normally, this computer controls the little cards that manage the tape drive, but it can be easily netbooted off to run some other OS, such as Debian. Also runs Doom, of course; this is what the links are demonstrating.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaQoD5gvIAc
https://old.reddit.com/r/itrunsdoom/comments/ezpapm/sun_storagetek_sl3000/
