Replace roller rubber on HP 9825 tape drive

Tue Jul 5 23:27:30 CDT 2005

On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:

> At any rate, the stupid tensioning belt (whatever its called) broke on me.
> Oh well, fuck that tape.  I'll try to read it anyway (is the tensioning
> belt necessary?)

Answer: yes, the belt is necessary, because otherwise the tape cannot move
in either direction.  Wow, what a great design!  Kudos to the idiot that
invented it.

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Sellam Ismail                                        Vintage Computer Festival
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