HP 85 Re: IBM 5150, am I nuts or what?

From: allisonp_at_world.std.com <(allisonp_at_world.std.com)>
Date: Thu Mar 23 14:02:25 2000

> > It's not but INITIALIZE takes care of that! But be aware that that the
> > rubber feed wheels in most 85s have long since melted away.
>
> Presumably they can be rebuilt, though. I've got an HP9815 (uses the same
> cartridges) tape drive in bits on the bench at the moment, and the
> capstan looks/feels good as new. If it wasn't, it doesn't look impossible
> to repair it.

If they are anyway similar TU58 suffers the same problem and those are
fairly easy to fix.

Allison
Received on Thu Mar 23 2000 - 14:02:25 GMT