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Article #4my mamma told me about dec tape drives
From: sdcarlrusty
Date: Thu, 28 May 1981 21:35
Date: Thu, 28 May 1981 21:35
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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.
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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>