Re: tape eating

We had a CE who forgot to hold the little prop stick back as he closed
the lid on our 9347 'piece of junk' tape drive. This broke the stick
leaving only about 1/4" hanging below the lid.  The lid was then
closed 'under duress' and the drive rolled back into the rack. As it
latched the 'clunk' of the latch caused the stressed top to pop up.
This caused the drive to complain that the top was open. However, we
couldn't get at it because there was a 9332 mounted on top of it and
we couldn't roll it out because the open lid was jammed against the
9332. Doh!  So we had to remove the 9332 completely to get the drive
back out. Then duct tape to the rescue!  This was on a B30 as well....

 - Larry

"Kahn, David [JNJFR]" wrote:
> 
> We had one of these or something very similar on our original B30. Usually
> you just posted the tape through the letter box slit, but if there was a
> tape jam you could slide the whole drawer out to get at the innards. This
> was where you had to make sure that the angle plate between the bottom of
> the rack and the floor was firmly screwed on otherwise the whole rack could
> topple forwards onto you, and they're not light. Our SE warned us that an
> IBM engineer had smashed a rack and narrowly avoided being crushed himself.
> We always made sure that our clients were fully aware that those plates were
> not just decorative.
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