[Info-vax] TK50 - this is annoying... (comment)

[Charles Richmond]

"Lee Gleason" <lee.gleason at comcast.net> wrote in message 
news:506f6212$0$11787$882e7ee2 at usenet-news.net...
>  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.
>

ISTM that the TK50 has *always* been annoying and is a **&Y#( piece of 
junk!!!  Just my opinion, you understand...

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