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made this video demonstrating my approach to belting, for someone else. y'all can see it too I guess, it's not a trade secret or...

My experience has been that they stretch with age. My solution to them being too tight is to stretch them first. If it feels like you're...

Also OS/400 uses structured files with variable blocksize. Dumping it with `dd` loses all the file structure (record/block sizes) which...

JVC made one too, very early on. I don't believe it was OEMed from anyone else, but I'm not positive. Here's one on eBay for a silly...

You need a tape device driver using the BSD semantics, which leaves the tape positioned where it is, on close. A subsequent read will...

MinusZeroDegrees is correct. Google can kick rocks. The ESDI disks are 0667. IBM's 16-bit ISA ESDI controllers are for the RT.

An update in this topic: I got the MFM emulator from David Gesswein, and with that I did a "magnetic" dump of the data on my disk. Not...

drives I've personally collected/observed (with the exception of the ST412), with IBM part markings, in 5160s, 5161s, and 5170s...

CMI CM6426. IBM WD12. IBM 0665-30. IBM 0665-38. IMI 5012H. Miniscribe 2012. Seagate ST225. Seagate ST412. Seagate ST4026. Seagate ST4038.

I thought there was some timing incompatibility between the VIC-20 and 1541, and this is why there is a VIC-1540? I probably don't...

I'm sure the answer is "yes, and then they will no longer be readable in a NeXT". But I didn't try that because my objective was to...

Can confirm Canon Diskfile 5001S will not read NeXT format cartridges. Because the NeXT OD interface is not "intelligent" it has the...

Well, what they were thinking was, since they were still only selling into academic accounts, that you could show up with your MO cart...