Date: Sun, 2 Feb 1997 15:05:40 +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.19970202150540.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199702021301.XAA17724@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>; from Michael Smith on Feb 2, 1997 23:31:04 %2B1030 References: <Mutt.19970202102039.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199702021301.XAA17724@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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As Michael Smith wrote: > > 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. :-)) > > I tried that, but all I had was Al panel repair tape. > It peeled and scored the tape around it. Drat. The era i've been talking about was way back in GDR times. I don't know exactly which kind of tape this has been, i think it's been intended as some decorative artwork tape, and has also been available in various colors (as plastic tape), besides of the Al version. We've been recycling a huge amount of old data tapes with this, by cutting off the exposed first 10 or 20 meters, and renewing the BOT label. -- 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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