Subj : Re: BBS's with MS-DOS software?
To   : Bob Worm
From : Spectre
Date : Fri Oct 20 2023 18:24:00

 BW> I imagine it must make a hell of a bang when it hits the end of a tape :\

Ahh no actually. Unlike a compact cassette the tapes are only held on by
friction so they just unspooled and wrapped around the drive spool.

 BW> That sounds useful but I have so many questions... Did it tell the user
 BW> their download would start in X minutes? How many times did some random
 BW> guy downloading "Roger's disk utility" wake you up in the middle of the
 BW> night? Does that amount of tape reuse throw muck all over the end of tape
 BW> sensor? ;)

It threw out a message saying it was recovering the file from the tape sans
any kind of time.  For what it was it was reasonably quick, a bit slow
getting itself lined up for random access but the transfer was quick enough
to not be a big issue. And no, it didn't seem to worry the drive at all. Did
it add to the drives early exit for the pearly gates one backup cycle...
maybe.. but not noticably.

I was only ever woken up by the BBS for about the first 3 days. I left the
monitor on, ATM1 all the bells and whistles.  After three days, being an
apprentice that needed to get to work for 7am I turned it all off and got
some more sleep. :)

Spec


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