Should we reuse mag tapes? - really bit banging

Thomas Eric Brunner brunner at sri-spam.istc.sri.com
Fri Mar 6 14:04:50 AEST 1987


In article <14551 at sun.uucp> cramer at sun.UUCP (Sam Cramer) writes:
>As long as we're talking about magnetic tapes and data retention, does anyone
>know if mechanical shock to a tape will cause bits to come unstuck?

No, but I'm willing to design an empirical test using your tapes :-)

-- 
how about a great big spidery "X"?



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