1/2" tape cleaner?

[Zane H. Healy]

> If I had a vacume column drive which floated the tape over the heads
> without contact I suspect this would not be a problem :-) but I don't
> have access to such a drive.  (actually, do such drives even exist?

I doubt it.  Wouldn't that make for interesting problems with reading and
writing the tapes?

> even the nice ibm drives I used to use would run the tape over the heads
> - I know because we had to clean them)

Ditto for the Honeywell drives I used to use.

		Zane