HP2648A tape drive capstans

[Richard]

In article <m1F5WhB-000IyFC at p850ug1>,
    ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell)  writes:

> > 
> > I'm a little curious--what kind of success might one have reading old (20+
> > years) HP tapes written on an HP9835?  I was asked this recently and I
> > opined that based on what I'd heard, particularly from the HP calculator
> > group, that the chances of retrieving error-free data was not all that
> > good.
> > 
> > Was I accurate?  Or are the 98xx tapes an exception?
> 
> Alas fairly low. The tapes for the 98x5 machines are much the same 
> construction as those for the HP85. The problem is that the belt sticks 
> to the oxide layer on the tape, and/or the tape sticks together, and you 
> get major loss of the magnetic coating when you try to read the tape. 
> Needless to say this makes it unreadable.

Anyone tried readtapes.com with one?
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