Advice for tape drive repair / maintenance

[Brent Hilpert]

Fred Cisin wrote:
> 
> "I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my
> telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to
> use my telephone" I said that after a frustrating attempt to use a
> "feature-rich" telephone sometime around 1990. I'm sure the sentiment
> wasn't original, and probably not even the overall phrasing; someone must
> have thought of that before me.
>                                 - Bjarne Strousstrup

... sounds like karmic retribution for Bjarne after adding C++ onto C