[HECnet] Introducing myself... and my little network

[Rob Jarratt]

I have a TK50 cartridge that I have been trying to read for some time, it
keeps failing at a single point. I was once told that a TF series drive
might be able to read past the error, but that TKs won't. I don't know how
much truth there might be to it, but I have been trying to find a TF drive
for a long time, they just don't seem to come up. Are they as rare as they
seem?

Regards

Rob

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE]
On Behalf Of Dave McGuire
Sent: 08 June 2012 08:57
To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
Subject: Re: [HECnet] Introducing myself... and my little network

On 06/08/2012 03:55 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
  I haven't tried cleaning TK50 heads in years, but I will (now that
I have a more respectable workspace) start trying that.   I will let
you know how things go.   I'll probably start digging into those
within the next month or two.   Thank you for the suggestion!

I take it TK50 tapes won't read in a later drive?

They will. TK70 and TK85 (if I remember right) can both read TK50.
You also have the TZ30 (I think the name is), which is a TK50
compatible, but smaller drive, with SCSI.

  The TK85 can read TK50s?   I didn't know that!   If that's the case, it's
likely that
the TF85 (DSSI version) may as well, and I have one of those.   That may be
one
more option to get my huge pile of TK50s read.

                  -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA