[Info-vax] TK50 - this is annoying...

[Lee Gleason]

  I recall a VAX Magic session at a DECUS convention in the mid 80s or so, 
where someone came up on stage, and, without saying a word of explanation, 
set a TK50 tape drive down on the floor  and proceeded to smash it to pieces 
with a middle sized hammer. He got a standing ovation. This memory came to 
mind today, as I have a TK50 that unwound about a foot and a half off of 
tape out of a middlin' irreplaceable tape, and then decided not to rewind 
it.

  I got the tape out of the drive undamaged. Anyone have any tips on how to 
rewind the tape back into the cartridge? The pulley in the cartridge seems 
locked when not in the drive. It's a tape I don't want to destroy, so I've 
been reluctant to start stabbing at the assorted levery bits of the 
cartridge looking for how to unlock it.

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Lee K. Gleason N5ZMR
Control-G Consultants
lee.gleason at comcast.net