CompacTape

Ouch. I'd complain big time. Definitely not what was being sold there. Does anyone know if they will No. Not at all. They won't even fit - go ahead, try it. There's a plastic stop in the left side that prevents the cartridge from fitting Or do I have a Pretty much. They're not entirely useless - but pretty close if you don't have the proper drive. I have once even tried to trick a TK50 drive into accepting a CompacTape III. I had a dud TK50, so I swapped the bottom cover of the cartridge onto a CompacTape III. It threads up in the TK50 but won't even come ready. Nor will it rewind and unload - you have to do it manually. Now, not that I expected this to work, mind you - the media is vastly different, by a factor of three or more in terms of orsted rating. I was curious what would happen. Now, the tape in nine track reels, that's close magnetically. I have sometimes wondered what would happen if you spooled nine track tape into a modified CompacTape shell, although I've never attempted it. Nine track tape is pretty hard to find too. -Ian