Re: 8mm tape

[DAsmussen@xxxxxxx]

Dennis,

In a message dated 3/4/99 5:51:09 PM Eastern Standard Time,
DMunro@badgerminingcorp.com writes:

<<snip>>
> Rather than getting a call at 2:10AM when the third shift cannot sign on to
>  the system and having to go in just to change the tape, I would like to be
>  able to determine when the tape is getting "close" to full or what
>  percentage of full it is.
>  
>  If anyone has figured this out, I am interested in hearing your solution.

If anyone has figured this out, I'll either kneel down and pray to them like
the God that they are, or slap the living stew out of them for lying like a
rug.  Somehow, I think the latter is more likely.  Tape is a variable
commodity in manufacture, just like textiles, business forms, or products that
are injection molded.  Despite the capacity rating on the cover of the
finished product, what's inside invariably has a +/- 5-10% variance from the
stated capacity.  Even if you _could_ monitor progress against the stated
capacity, it would only be correct for one out of a dozen or so tapes.  You'd
be better served by installing a paging product that pages someone when the
last tape is full...

JMHO,

Dean Asmussen
Enterprise Systems Consulting, Inc.
Fuquay-Varina, NC  USA
E-mail:  DAsmussen@aol.com

"Children have more need of models than of critics." -- Carolyn Coats
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