🚀 go-pugleaf

RetroBBS NetNews Server

Inspired by RockSolid Light RIP Retro Guy

Article View: NET.periphs
Article #4

my mamma told me about dec tape drives

#4
From: sdcarlrusty
Date: Thu, 28 May 1981 21:35
11 lines
855 bytes
I just had a curious encounter with our tape drive. It is a te16 on an
11/780.  I (somehow) managed to get the tape behind the upper tape
guide roller. There are two of these rollers, one on each side of the
head, they each have a little sticker on them saying "do not remove"
(presumably this means the sticker and not the roller?). Anyhow, when I
tried to write on the tape the reels spun a bit and then stopped and
the process that was writing was wedged and the system had to be
rebooted to unhang it. I tried to write on the tape twice (and rebooted
each time) before I noticed my creative threading.

strange.
Technical Details
Message-ID: <anews.Asdcarl.78>
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!duke!decvax!ucbvax!sdcsvax!phonlab!sdcarl!rusty

Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!duke!decvax!ucbvax!sdcsvax!phonlab!sdcarl!rusty
From: sdcarl!rusty
Newsgroups: NET.periphs
Subject: my mamma told me about dec tape drives
Date: Thu, 28 May 1981 21:35:06 +0000
Message-ID: <anews.Asdcarl.78>