9 track reel tapes

From: Eric Smith <eric_at_brouhaha.com>
Date: Tue Sep 30 09:09:25 2003

"Gooijen H" <GOOI_at_oce.nl> wrote:
> The small rack-mount tape drive from DEC is the TS03.

That's the one I was thinking of, thanks!

> The small rack-mount tape drive from DEC is the TS03.
> By joke, the "TS" was for "Tape Stretcher" as the TS03
> did not have a sort of vacuum column, but just a roller
> with a spring to keep the tape tensioned.

It was not the TS03 but rather the TS11 that is the tape stretcher.
When you load a tape, it sometimes can get into a mode where it
applies full torque to both reels, with predictable results. I've
never heard of that happening on the TS03.
Received on Tue Sep 30 2003 - 09:09:25 BST

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