7 Apr
2010
7 Apr
'10
1:41 p.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-
bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Chuck Guzis
Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 1:00 PM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: Are QIC 1000 tapes rare?
On 7 Apr 2010 at 19:47, Tony Duell wrote:
True story: A number of years ago I worked for a telephone company. I was standing near a
table of 'open' PCs - units for casual use - when someone walked up to one and
slid a CD into the 5-1/4" floppy slot. (The machines had no CDROM drives.) I
managed to stop him before he tried to turn the locking lever - and likely destroy the CD.
HelpDesk had to open up the machine to remove the disk.... -- Ian
I would also suspect that the number of
'classic computers' run by
enthusiasts that use 8" (and even more so 5.25") flopplies vastly
exceeds the number that use QIC1000 tapes.
Maybe, but perhaps not "vastly" at this late date and age. Many
commercial customers probably maintain large libraries of tapes for
magazine-feed tape drives. Show the average guy on the street a
5.25" drive and he's likely to think it's a new type of DVD unit.