On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
  At any rate, the stupid tensioning belt (whatever its
called) broke on me.
 Oh well, fuck that tape.  I'll try to read it anyway (is the tensioning
 belt necessary?) 
Answer: yes, the belt is necessary, because otherwise the tape cannot move
in either direction.  Wow, what a great design!  Kudos to the idiot that
invented it.
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Sellam Ismail                                        Vintage Computer Festival
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