RE: tape eating

["Kahn, David [JNJFR]" <DKahn1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.

Dave Kahn
Johnson & Johnson International (Ethicon) France
Phone : +33 1 55 00 3180
Email :  dkahn1@jnjfr.jnj.com (work)
           dkahn@cix.co.uk      (home)

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De: nina jones [mailto:ddi@datadesigninc.com]
Date: 31 August 1999 14:33
À: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Objet: Re: tape eating

we've had that tape drive for almost 10 years, and propped the top up
years ago.  in fact i had forgotten that you're actually not supposed to
see what goes on inside!

since we do media conversions, we have to have that drive, but tankfully
we're getting less and less of the big reels.  i really dislike them!
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