7 track tape terminal

From: "William Donzelli" <aw288(a)osfn.org> Subject: 7 track tape terminal Back in 69-70, I was an operator in a shop where they used Mohawk data entry systems for (mainly) salary-related work. The model they used, only had 1 reel. The "used" part of the tape was just falling down into a drawer. The systems worked like shit (sorry to say so), as we had read errors on just about every tape we attempted to read. We read them on 9-track IBM drives. One day, IIRC, we started to read them (about 20 tapes or so), at 1600. We were supposed to be finished at 5-ish, but had to sweat through countless errors, cleaning cycles, etc. until we sort-of finished at 2100. Some tapes just couldnt be read, on any of the 5 drives we tried. Nico --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.674 / Virus Database: 436 - Release Date: 02-05-2004