Am 19.05.15 um 12:25 schrieb Johnny Billquist: > > Wow. That is definitely YMMV then. I've never seen that happen anywhere, > and I occasionally still work with TK50s. (Even professionally.) It was a TZ30 in a DEC3000 running NetBSD, IIRC. We tried several TK50 tapes and all of them exhibited the sticky tape problem. And my 9-track tapes are rotten to the point of uselessness too. They still worked most of the time about 10 years ago. (In 2001 I installed 2.11BSD on my /73 using a TK50.) The tapes where stored under normal household conditions. I suppose the time of those tapes is long gone. The only use for them now is wall decoration. :-( --
tschüß, Jochen