True. Back in the day, before automated tape readers, tapes were stored in silos, like a library, and employees would find the cataloged tapes and manually ret

True. Back in the day, before automated tape readers, tapes were stored in silos, like a library, and employees would find the cataloged tapes and manually retrieve and load them into tape readers. My company use to hire co-ops to do this back in the 70s or so.