Nice! I thought that was a good overview. Brought back some memories. I like this old drives - I have a 7978. When the tape had a bad spot, a crease, dirty spot, which generated a tape read error, I could have the drive stop at that point, pull out some tape, find the bad spot, and attempt to clean it, or unpress the crease. Many times I would get it to be readable for recovering data. Not so easy when using the 7980 models - less showy also. Keven Miller ----- Original Message ----- From: Lee Courtney To: General Discussion: On-Topic Posts Only Sent: Saturday, May 24, 2014 10:58 AM Subject: HP7974 Tape Drive Video HI all, I have started putting together some overview videos documenting my classic HP3000. Purpose is to just give people a flavor of what classic mini-computing was like in the 1970s/1980s. My first video on the HP7974 tape drive is posted at Youtube: http://youtu.be/mDnNZuDNJfg Production values are *low* - just me riffing on the item, shot with my cell phone camera, and edited with iMovie. I just want to get some done while I have time. Take a look, suggestions appreciated. Thanks! -- Lee Courtney