TK50 tribulations

[Steve Maddison]

2009/6/2 Mr Ian Primus wrote:
> Did you clean the heads AND the leader strip? I had one with so much fuzz
> on it that it would have surely gunked up the heads straight away. You
> can clean the leader with alcohol, just like the heads. Sometimes these
> things need multiple cleanings...
I cleaned pretty much everything /but/ the leader. It's worth a try,
but it looks pretty spotless.

> I assume you've got this connected to a PDP-11 or Vax that you're using
> to write to it, and that this isn't the SCSI flavored TK50Z.
Yep, it's the "regular" TK50 hooked up to a Qbus TQK50 controller.

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Steve Maddison
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