Subject: Re: TK50/TK70 tapes
To: None <port-vax@netbsd.org>
From: Gordon C. Zaft <zaft@azstarnet.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 06/21/1999 23:09:35
At 11:37 PM 6/21/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Is this happening because the tape was previously written on a TK50
>drive??  If so, can the timing track be erased with a powerful permanent
>magnet (and from which side?) or is an alternating magnetic field
>needed? I'm asking about the permanent magnet because the audio/video
>equipment dealers I've talked to don't stock a *good* bulk tape
>eraser...

	If you have any friends who work in the defense biz they may well have
access to a STRONG degausser...:-)

	Anyone know of a good source for new TK-70 cartridges (i.e. TK52s)?

GZ

Gordon Zaft
zaft@azstarnet.com