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* Re: [TUHS] Someone wants to use an exabyte [ really bulk erasing ]
@ 2019-11-25 18:18 Norman Wilson
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From: Norman Wilson @ 2019-11-25 18:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: tuhs

I had a hand-held degausser, but lent it to someone years ago
and never got it back.

It was actually Exabyte that made me buy it.  I bought a new
8505 through a reseller to supersede the 8200 I was using for
home backups.  It turned out the 8505's firmware refused to
overwrite a tape already written at any but the highest density,
so I couldn't reuse any of my existing backup tapes.  Exabyte
insisted it was a feature, not a bug.  So I gave up and bought
a degausser so I could turn a used tape into a blank tape so
the damn tape drive would write on it.

For further vintage-computing amusement: I decided to buy at
that time because the reseller had arranged a deal with Exabyte:
trade in any old tape drive, working or not, and get a couple of
hundred bucks off on a brand-new 8505.  So I gave the reseller
an old, broken TK05 I had lying around.  My sales contact for
the reseller was a former service tech at the same company, so
I figured (correctly) he'd get the joke.

Norman Wilson
Toronto ON

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* [TUHS] Someone wants to use an exabyte
@ 2019-11-24 22:39 Richard Salz
  2019-11-24 22:52 ` Larry McVoy
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From: Richard Salz @ 2019-11-24 22:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: TUHS main list

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Historically important he says. The guy had creds.
https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1198706617967095809?s=19

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2019-11-25  1:41   ` Dave Horsfall
2019-11-25  1:42     ` George Michaelson
2019-11-25  3:29       ` Dave Horsfall
2019-11-25  3:34         ` [TUHS] Someone wants to use an exabyte [ really bulk erasing ] Jon Steinhart
2019-11-25  3:59           ` William Pechter
2019-11-25 15:25             ` Clem Cole
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