18 Aug
2005
18 Aug
'05
4:23 p.m.
If I had a vacume column drive which floated the tape
over the heads
without contact I suspect this would not be a problem :-) but I don't
have access to such a drive. (actually, do such drives even exist?
I doubt it. Wouldn't that make for interesting problems with reading and
writing the tapes?
even the nice ibm drives I used to use would run the
tape over the heads
- I know because we had to clean them)
Ditto for the Honeywell drives I used to use.
Zane