The TABLON mass storage network
Richard B. Gentile, J. Lucas · 1971
This paper documents an approach by the Department of Defense for solving the massive volume digital tape storage problem. It describes a computer network called TABLON which provides several trillion (1012) bits of on-line storage simultaneously to a number of dissimilar computer systems. Such a network has potential application to any company, major institution, or publicly supported organization with the following situations: