On Wed, 23 May 2012 10:33:52 -0400, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)  wrote:

>on 05/22/2012 at 10:22 AM, John Gilmore said:
>
>>One-inch tapes were once very common in IBM shops,
>
>Common?
> 
I had the impression they were rare (well, I never saw one).  And
expensive.  It wouldn't make economic sense to split them.  (Unless
you scored a truckload at an estate sale.)  And where would you get
empty 1/2" reels?  And how many feet of iron oxide, used otherwise
as an abrasive, would it take to ruin the edge of your pizza cutter?

-- gil

----------------------------------------------------------------------
For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,
send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Reply via email to