30 Sep
2003
30 Sep
'03
2:09 a.m.
"Gooijen H" <GOOI(a)oce.nl> wrote:
The small rack-mount tape drive from DEC is the TS03.
That's the one I was thinking of, thanks!
The small rack-mount tape drive from DEC is the TS03.
> By joke, the "TS" was for "Tape Stretcher" as the TS03
> did not have a sort of vacuum column, but just a roller
> with a spring to keep the tape tensioned.
It was not the TS03 but rather the TS11 that is the tape stretcher.
When you load a tape, it sometimes can get into a mode where it
applies full torque to both reels, with predictable results. I've
never heard of that happening on the TS03.