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

[Lee Gleason]

"brad"  wrote in message news:slrnk70kc6.60i.brad at coyote.home.earwicker...

>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.

  Yah, I don't think anyone is crazy enough (even me) to be using TK50s for 
actual production use. My interest in such is  hobby related. The old 
machines I collect and run often have TK50 and 70 drives in 'em.  This tape 
came with a Micro 11/73 I just acquired.


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