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

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2012-10-06 17:01, David Froble wrote:
> Johnny Billquist wrote:
>
>>
>> It's extremely annoying, and such a shitty thing that DEC didn't
>> implement some way to force the drive to unload the tape.
>>
>> The TK70 and newer are much better.
>>
>>     Johnny
>>
>
> The TK50, or maybe the TZ30 (I think they were basically the same thing)
> was the first.  You learn from your mistakes and shortcomings and do
> better in subsequent products.  Isn't this how things should be?

The TZ30 is media compatible with the TK50, but it's a different design.

Yes, you learn from your mistakes. But this is such a glaring one that 
they should have thought about it even before introduction.

It's kindof similar to the early Mac machines not having an eject button 
for the floppy. However, those machines at least sorted them self out if 
power cycled, not to mention that a floppy inherently is more integrally 
intact than a tape the whole time.

Introducing the tiny hole, and a bent paper clip... :-)

	Johnny

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