I might be inclined to agree with you, except for the fact that Actavis engaged in cynical manipulation of patent law to obtain protection that they were not entitled to. I say throw the book at them!

Thanks for the clarification, that's exactly what I'm saying. Oh yes, there was nothing crude about the 3850.

The IBM 3850 mass storage system, announced in 1974, held up to 472G on strips of magnetic tape. The 3850 was a rectangular box large enough walk into, with the strips stored along its interior walls in a honeycomb arrangement of slots. A pair of robotic pickers took turns running along a set of rails where they would fetch a tape strip, carry it to a device that wrapped it around a drum for read/write access, and later return it to its slot. You could watch it operating through a window in the box (IBM loved to show off their stuff).

My point is that none of this is new. It is neither interesting nor innovative.

And this is exactly why I always run an ad blocker.

Given the current mess that is web advertising, it would be foolish to do otherwise.