Another rubber capstan turns to mush

From: Chuck Swiger <chuck_at_mail.schillernet.us>
Date: Mon May 5 08:22:00 2003

On Sat, 2003-05-03 at 23:53, R. D. Davis wrote:
> Quothe chuck_at_mail.schillernet.us, from writings of Sat, May 03, 2003 at 08:58:49PM -0400:
>
> > Hello All - bah, was just playing with my QIC drive, a WangTek
> > 5150ES (Using dos tar!) and halfway thru the first listing
> > tape stops. Turns out the rubber what drives the tape has gotten
> > very soft. Anybody have a box full of cheap replacements?
>
> Oops... it appears that you didn't use the /LCV (lowest capstan
> viscosity) flag ;-) to prevent the tar command from attempting to turn
> the rubber capstan into a tarry substance. :-(

No, sure didn't. But that dos tar DOES have the oddity of having an
-N flag for 'binary', hardly anything saves correctly if you leave it
out. Anyway, think I'll try auto fuel hose and see what happens.

--Chuck
Received on Mon May 05 2003 - 08:22:00 BST