I'm sure it got fixed because I never heard of the problem happening
again. But I guess my memory is selective because I only remember the
fun part of making things smoke. Sorry - no details about the fix.
Paul Gilmartin wrote:
Did StorageTek fix it, perhaps by capping the duty cycle?
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Those were the little foil reflectors, programmatically referred to as BOT
and EOT. For partially overwritten tapes could fwd space to the EOT and do
a Read Backwards.
Think most of the vendors were Potter Brumfield or Ampex rebranded. There
were rumors of a 13k 9trk but the Carts appeared
On Thu, 30 Jun 2016 16:52:17 -0700, Tom Brennan wrote:
>Way later than the 1950's, a tape operator called me to watch a Storage
>Tek reel drive do something strange: He mounted a scratch tape and the
>job took off spinning the reels so fast that soon the metal capstan got
>hot enough to melt the
nough ruined yet
another capstan! I think they were about $900 each, but at least we
found the cause.
Edward Gould wrote:
Behold the Fascinating Nightmare of Debugging a Computer from the 1950s
It takes a lot more than some typing.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/a21586/debugging
Behold the Fascinating Nightmare of Debugging a Computer from the 1950s
It takes a lot more than some typing.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/a21586/debugging-1959-vacuum-tape-drive/?mag=pop&list=nl_pnl_news&src=nl&date=063016
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