Al,
thank you putting so much effort into reading these old Tapes. Really
appreciate it.
Sven
On 07/13/2018 06:35 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk 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,
On 7/13/18 11:29 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
> 7942 is completely incompatible with the 44 and 45
sigh.. 9142
Correct, I meant the 16 or 32 track drives.
There was a document floating around called 'hcdvsqic.txt' that I had recently
uploaded to
http://bitsavers.org/pdf/hp/tape/9144
I just found a more detailed document written in Jun, 1989 on the subject that
I'm about to upload
that goes into more deta
On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 5:35 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk
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
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
the cartridge until you 'unload' it, which spins to the EOT soft
region. Well, guess what, they leave the tape in a position where
the resi
