Asdcarl.78 NET.periphs utzoo!duke!decvax!ucbvax!sdcsvax!phonlab!sdcarl!rusty Thu May 28 21:35:06 1981 my mamma told me about dec tape drives I just had a curious encounter with our tape drive. It is a te16 on an 11/780. I (somehow) managed to get the tape behind the upper tape guide roller. There are two of these rollers, one on each side of the head, they each have a little sticker on them saying "do not remove" (presumably this means the sticker and not the roller?). Anyhow, when I tried to write on the tape the reels spun a bit and then stopped and the process that was writing was wedged and the system had to be rebooted to unhang it. I tried to write on the tape twice (and rebooted each time) before I noticed my creative threading. strange. ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.