tape drive question

From: Bill Pechter <pechter_at_bg-tc-ppp389.monmouth.com>
Date: Fri Aug 17 11:08:41 2001

> Hi. Having recently been the happy recipient of an HP 7978 tape drive I have
> set about the task of finding new blank tapes for it. Not too difficult
> until faced with the embarrassing question of whether my tapes need to be
> Wright Line seal or Easy Load (Auto Load ?). My vintage magnetic media
> experience doesn't go much beyond 8 inch disks, so I wondered if anyone could
> please give me some hints on how to answer this. (Of course I haven't got
> any manuals). Thanks in advance.

IIRC I think these are the flat frontload drives like the ones Pyramid
used.

I don't think it matters with those drives since the tape seal must be
removed to load them.

Bill

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Received on Fri Aug 17 2001 - 11:08:41 BST