5 Feb
2006
5 Feb
'06
9:37 a.m.
On Sunday 05 February 2006 03:04, Christian Corti wrote:
On Sat, 4 Feb 2006, Tony Duell wrote:
How do you heat them? How do you know when "enough is enough" heat?
Cheers,
Lyle
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Lyle Bickley
Bickley Consulting West Inc.
Mountain View, CA
http://bickleywest.com
"Black holes are where God is dividing by zero"
construction as those for the HP85. The problem
is that the belt sticks
to the oxide layer on the tape, and/or the tape sticks together, and you
get major loss of the magnetic coating when you try to read the tape.
Needless to say this makes it unreadable.
So you try to shred a tape first and after that you begin to think about
it? Everyone who *knows* that the belt is sticking opens the cartridge and
tries to unstick the belt without damaging the tape. This works very fine
by applying heat (similar to baking sticky tapes, but here the tape is not
sticky, it's only the belt). And the tapes are fine afterwards. It's how I
revived all the original HP cartidges with software for the HP1000 (dated
from 1980 to 1985) that I have. I've made backups, of course, but they are
still fine.