CompacTape

[Zane H. Healy]

At 8:27 PM -0500 10/1/07, Jason T wrote:
>I just received my shipment of items from this auction:
>
>http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220149564798
>
>which should have been a load of recyclable TK50 media.  Instead of
>CompacTape, however, they are all CompacTape III.  I think these were
>TK85 2.6gb media.   Does anyone know if they will still be writable
>with the standard format in a TK50?  Or do I have a bunch of useless
>DLT I tapes?

I take it you didn't get what was shown in the picture.

DLT III tapes are far from useless.  I use them on my VMS box with a 
modernish tape drive, much better for backing up 18-36GB drives than 
TK50's. :^)

		Zane



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