[Coco] Sigh of relief, refresh your floppies!

[Steven Hirsch]

On Sat, 27 Mar 2010, Gene Heskett wrote:

>>>> Avoid rotary head data drives (DAT and 8mm) like the plague.  I've had
>>>> enormous problems with these over the years and I don't think I'm
>>>> alone.
>>>
>>> Nope, you have lots of company in that little red wagon bound for he!!.
>>
>> s/hell/bitbucket/    ?
>>
>> It's reassuring to know I'm not the only one :-)  Interesting how a
>> technology that worked so well for video acquired such a black-eye in the
>> computer domain.  I'll guess that things were scaled down, dumbed down and
>> cheapened to the point of unreliability, then "Muntzed" back until they
>> just barely worked (a time-tested engineering process).

> A history buff I see. ;-)

I first heard about "Muntz-ing" from an old-time radio & tv repair guy I 
worked for during my high school years.  An important part of electronics 
folk-lore!

> Yeah I fought with a dds2 changer for a couple of years, wearing out 4 
> of them before I got schmardt.  Now I use vtapes on a terrabyte hard 
> drive, very dependable in comparison to the dds2 tapes.  My data outgrew 
> them anyway.

At the risk of appearing naive... vtape?  What's dat?

Steve



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