I hate HP 914x tapes

[Tony Duell]

On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 5:35 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
> Man, these things are annoying.
>
> All of the bands are bad, and they leave residue on the spools.
> There are no EOT BOT holes on the HP tape, and the drive locks

I assume you mean the HP9144 and HP9145 drives/tapes. The
HP9142 uses normal QIC24 formatting and does have the optical
hole sensor (I have just checked the schematics).

-tony