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

[brad]

On 2012-10-06, Lee Gleason <lee.gleason at comcast.net> wrote:
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>   Ah, thanks for the info - that did the business. I didn't expect two 
> locks, that's
> why my tentative poking and prodding didn't produce results.
>
>   I also took apart a spare tape to have a look at. I'm glad I didn't take 
> the one I
> need apart to rewind it - springs and little plastic parts shot out of the 
> case to
> places  unknwon in the workshop, no doubt never to be seen again.
>
>   Anyway, I got the good tape rewound (could have used a 3rd & 4th hand) and
> read it on another drive successfully. Thanks again.
>
Of course, there's no guarantee you can do the same thing again, if needed.
Media and drives of this vintage will inevitably fail again (and, according
to Murphy, at the most incovenient time).

This incident should be the springboard to ideas that lead to an eventual
migration to newer, more reliable (?) systems.  Especially if the data is
valuable.
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