19 Feb
1999
19 Feb
'99
9:58 a.m.
On Fri, 19 Feb 1999, Tony Duell wrote:
Geez! You guys are dead right and I am dead wrong. It seems like a
strange way to do it though.
- don
Stan, how can
that happen? Every cartridge tape that I have run across -
from DC-100 to DC-2120 and beyond - is spooled such that the oxide face is
towards the hub of the spool and NEVER comes in contact with the drive
band. I have had tape layers stick together from old age and lack of use,
and certainly broken drive bands, but...
Just looked at a couple of tape cartridges - a DC300XLP (3M brand if it
matters) and an HP cartridge from my 85.
In both cases, the outside of the tape - the surface that faces the
recording head - is also the outside of the spool. I think it's
reasonable to assume that the side that touches the head is the
oxide-coated side, and thus it's the oxide-coated side that also contacts
the drive belt.
-tony