L1000 without barcode reader?

How can I tell if the unit I have has a barcode reader? is buyin a unit withOUT a barcode reader even an option.

I'm new to this company, and none of the tapes use barcodes. With 30 tapes the changer is just a big manual tape storage unit.

[310 byte] By [siddhartha] at [2007-11-25 22:45:10]
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Yes the L1000 has a bar code reader built in. If you are using it to just "tar" data off to tape the tapes most likely don't need a bar code. If you are using some type of backup software(Veritas, SAMFS, etc) bar codes would be needed for keeping archive set information.

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