10 Nov
2005
10 Nov
'05
12:18 a.m.
Bummer! I'd been thinking for years about
trying that. Oh well it's a
good thing that I have plenty of 9114 and HP-IL cassette drives. Now if I
could just find a GOOD source of those darned tapes!
I'd settle for a source of good tapes ;-). Most of them have got pressure
pad preoblems by now, alas. This can be cured (I wrote an article in the
HPCC journal about doing this), but I am not sure how long-lived the
result is.
Personally, I only use the 82161 tape drive to read tapes that somebody
else gices me. I don't use it as a serious mass storage device for my own
programs.
-tony