> Obviously for the auto-loading drives, either would be bad news. But > it's for the last reason that I'm interested in the blue (well, > sometimes white) tape.
Or yellow. I'd like a source of these too. Foam blocks were ok back then, but it seems like it's hard to guess which type will not go to crumbs or goo. I would also like to find a few of the rings that prevented insertion of a write-enable ring. These seem to have been uncommon. We were a CDC site at the time, dunno if that's a selector. De