1 Aug
2010
1 Aug
'10
3:42 p.m.
Tony wrote...
While EGMA34 was a very common format for such
cassettes, it was not the
only one (AFAIK). I am sure I have sene at least one tape drive that uses
such cassetes and uses at totally different format. The notch may well be
used to ensure the cassette can only be fitted one way round with soem
formats -- which use the entire width of the tape in one go.
From what I skimmed in some docs, it looks like these DG tape units use the
entire
width of the tape. But no way to fake higher coercivity :\
But alas I have no idea where you'd get the
casssettes now.
These units are in mint shape, was hoping they wouldn't be
paperweights :\
J