On 2019-08-05 08:28 AM, Russell Reiter via talk wrote: > How often would you do routine servicing, as opposed to repairs? They > look like huge dust magnets to me and I can't see dust and magnetic > tape playing well together.
I've forgotten the interval, but they received regular maintenance. I just did it when my supervisor told me to. Maintenance would involve cleaning the heads, tape path and capstan, checking air filters and running reliability tests. Data centres tend to be fairly clean but, back in those days, we had to tell a couple of the programmers to not smoke in that area. --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
