> On Sep 21, 2019, at 11:19 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> I've got over a hundred TU58s I need to look at some day as well.
> Fixed the pinch rollers on some TU58s a year or two ago, just too many other
> things to do.
I have about a dozen TU58 cartridges which came with my VAX-11/730. I'd like to
archive them (or even read them, for that matter), but so far I have had not
had any success with repairing cartridge drive belts. I just hate those things.
I have a feeling that I might have better results by building an open reel
imaging drive where I transfer the tape media out of the original cartridge,
abandoning the &$@#! drive belt concept. But that's going to be a fairly big
project, so I haven't made progress on it beyond brainstorming so far.
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Mark J. Blair, NF6X <[email protected]>
http://www.nf6x.net/
