Paul Gilmartin wrote: >Decades ago a rogue co-worker told me that in his previous position he
>sometimes distributed shareware. He always asked recipients to supply >a tape to which he could copy. >But each such tape he first copied to one of his tapes. >"I got lots of great software that way!" *facepalm* Since it's Friday and we're swapping tape stories, back in the day, I had a couple of red 3480 cartridges that I'd picked up somewhere. I'd take 'em to customer sites, because it was usually easier to tell the operators "It's the red one" when I needed it mounted or returned. That is, until an operator put it into an STK silo. Seems the red cartridge and the red laser didn't get along: the silo insisted the slot was empty, and then of course wouldn't pull the cart to return it. They had to power down the silo to extract it manually. After that, I took two: a red and a black, and asked about silo use before providing either. Anyone know if Sterling Forest still has 3420s? Last time I was there (2004?) they did, and even a 7-track drive IIRC. .phsiii ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
