20 May
2015
20 May
'15
12:11 p.m.
On 2015-05-20 21:06, Jochen Kunz wrote:
Am 19.05.15 um 12:25 schrieb Johnny Billquist:
Hmm. There might also be other issues when using a TZ30 as compared to a
TK50 here... I don't even remember how the TZ30 looks inside. There
might be rubber parts in there.
Johnny
Wow. That is definitely YMMV then. I've never seen that happen anywhere,
and I occasionally still work with TK50s. (Even professionally.)
It was a TZ30 in
a DEC3000 running NetBSD, IIRC. We tried several TK50
tapes and all of them exhibited the sticky tape problem. And my 9-track
tapes are rotten to the point of uselessness too. They still worked most
of the time about 10 years ago. (In 2001 I installed 2.11BSD on my /73
using a TK50.) The tapes where stored under normal household conditions.
I suppose the time of those tapes is long gone. The only use for them
now is wall decoration. :-(