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

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In article <5070494d$0$12555$882e7ee2 at usenet-news.net>, "Lee Gleason" <lee.gleason at comcast.net> writes:
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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.
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>>Wasn't that Jamie Hanrahan?  But I think it was an 8mm tape, not a TK50.
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>  Jamie didn't do the TK50 smash. He did rush out of the wings and grab the 
>undamaged
>drive sled from the victim TK50 drive, since they  were scarce, expensive, 
>& useful for all sorts of other things.
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>  At a Magic Session (I'm almost certain that same one), Jamie did tell a 
>story that, at that time,
>the only way to get some types of 8mm cartridges to work on DEC 8mm drives 
>was to use an
>8mm camcorder to initialize them.  Perhaps that is what you are recalling.

Could be.  'Twas many DECUS moons ago.>

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