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From: Al Kossow <aek@bitsavers.org>
To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] tape "baking" [was PL/I stuff - was: Book Recommendation
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2021 09:39:55 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b8fab452-0603-7462-d98c-7c39a8e984c8@bitsavers.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.21.2111271107080.26556@sd-119843.dedibox.fr>

On 11/27/21 8:07 AM, Steve Nickolas wrote:

>> Ampex patent 5,236,790 says 54C for 16 hours.

There are a few other tricks, like forcing air through the tape during baking
that we came up with in the 00s. There are others, like using 32 track 3490 MR
head stacks for recovery.

80's Memorex is some of the worst tape ever made, it was also the cheapest, and way
too many distribution and backup tapes were made using it.



  reply	other threads:[~2021-11-27 17:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-11-27 15:25 [TUHS] " Noel Chiappa
2021-11-27 15:53 ` Charles H Sauer
2021-11-27 15:58   ` [TUHS] tape "baking" [was " Charles H Sauer
2021-11-27 16:07     ` Steve Nickolas
2021-11-27 17:39       ` Al Kossow [this message]
2021-11-27 17:42         ` Al Kossow

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