On 08/16/2015 10:15 AM, Jay Jaeger wrote:
More likely, apply the technology used on some 9 Track drives: a little tension arm and then use servos to drive the supply and takeup reels, and an encoder (*not* driven) that measures speed (in place of the capstan on older drives).
Maybe--I know the method--you see it on some Cipher drives and it's even on my tape cleaning machine. A capstan-pinch roller, I think is no worse and might actually help with wrinkled QIC tapes that have made a mess inside of a QIC cartridge when their tension belts have rotted out.
--Chuck
