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From: Jon Pastor
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 19:02

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I formatted a tape in my CMS Jumbo 250 for the first time last night, using
CMS-supplied software.  When the 1:00:00 appeared in the "time remaining"
field, I assumed that that meant 1 MINUTE (even though that should have been
represented as 1:00.00).  It really took an hour.

My question is: what the Hell is it doing for that hour?  My feeling is that
it could put the entire works of Shakespeare and maybe a couple of phone books
on tape in that much time.  What is there about formatting a tape that makes
it take that long?

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