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

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In article <506f6212$0$11787$882e7ee2 at usenet-news.net>, "Lee Gleason" <lee.gleason at comcast.net> writes:
>  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.

Wasn't that Jamie Hanrahan?  But I think it was an 8mm tape, not a TK50.


>  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.

There a lock that, IIRC, is on the underside of the TK50 shell.  You'll
have to then wind the tape back inside -- probably by hand... have fun.

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