On Sun, Mar 01, 2015 at 09:51:25PM -0600, Jon Elson wrote:
  Yup, I tried to help bring up a surplus G-15D, but
finally
 discovered the drum was trashed. 
Too bad.  Was it physically dead, or just the bits scrambled?
IIUC there was _one_ machine that was set up to write the timing
track.  It was at the factory :-)
When was this?  What happened to the pieces?
mcl