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On 10/19/2013 02:24 PM, Dennis Boone wrote: Easy--when you grabbed your hardshell Samsonite briefcase and filled it with whatever you thought you'd need before hopping on the next flight to god-knows-where, you'd grab your "universal deadstart tape", which had several different configurations on it. Load it up on tape unit 0, press "load forward" on the drive the required number of times and then push the deadstart button--and you were in business. Similarly, if you had a very important file (this was before high-speed data links), you'd take the same file and write it several times, separated by BOT markers. There was very little worse than spending hours on a plane, only to discover that your tape had an error on it. If you had to call back to the office to get someone to send you a new tape, you lost at least a day and further irritated the customer. I recall at least one occasion where I was asked to supply a tape during "customer time" at an Air Force base. Without thinking, I pulled the tape out of my Samsonite and went over to an open tape drive and started mounting it. All of the sudden, I hear a shout, "Sir, please step away the computer room has his job and that I was infringing on this guy's territory--which was mounting tapes. --Chuck