Subj : Re: BBS's with MS-DOS software?
To   : Bob Worm
From : Spectre
Date : Fri Oct 20 2023 06:49:00

 BW> They were all stored together so I put it down to bit rot... until I went
 BW> to pack the drive away and found its belt lying on the bench underneath.
 BW> It's never what you think will get you that gets you :(

My drive didn't last that long.  It lost the end of tape sensor... being an
optical sensor and a small hole in the tape.  I cleaned it up a couple of
times, and rewound a few tapes, but in the end it just became unviable.  No
idea what I did with the tapes themselves now.

At different times, my tapes did different duties. Backups of course, and
after some time I found a door that would let you use a tape as a file area..
of course it had latency in retrieving the file for download, but being able
to have a slab of monolithic data was handy, and could free up drive space.

I only ever had SCSI in the Apple II world, and there were plenty of cheapish
drives kicking around, like the ol' Archive Viper but I could never get them
to talk to any of the available software.

Spec


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