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Date:      Sun, 2 Feb 1997 10:20:39 +0100
From:      j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To:        msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith)
Cc:        freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Good name for a dump(8) option?
Message-ID:  <Mutt.19970202102039.j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199702020117.LAA15124@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>; from Michael Smith on Feb 2, 1997 11:47:34 %2B1030
References:  <Mutt.19970202013808.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199702020117.LAA15124@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>

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As Michael Smith wrote:

> > >  Even _I_ turned mine into a stereo rack over a year ago, ...
> > 
> > Abuse!!! :-))
> 
> I couldn't find anyone who could sell me the little BOM labels, so I
> couldn't set up any of the fresh tapes I had, and all the old ones
> were toast.

I remember that simple aluminum adhesive tape used to do this task for
us back some 10 years ago, when we had to handle 800 bpi r-t-r tapes
on our PDP-11 clone.  Worked well. :-))

>  Then I had to give back the SCSI/9-track adapter I had,
> and about all that was left useful was the 4mm steel-plate chassis.
> Waste not, want not, and you should see the price of a decent stereo
> cabinet these days, outrageous! 8)

Hehe.
-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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