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freebeard · 05-30-2023, 12:32 AM

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Through the 1970s I had one of these*. It had five heads and would pinch two tapes together, read one and write the other. It ate tapes.

Eventually as the heads eroded, the gap in the heads was too wide.

Forget where it went. Like many other things.

*The tape is threaded all wrong. The top left reel should feed to the post to the left of the normal track and back up to top right. The switch in between controls them.

05-30-2023, 12:32 AM	#185 (permalink)
freebeard Master EcoModder Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: northwest of normal Posts: 27,789 Thanks: 7,805 Thanked 8,613 Times in 7,094 Posts	i.pinimg.com/originals/dc/b5/92/dcb592ac6084abc9673595f2fd660690.jpg Through the 1970s I had one of these. It had five heads and would pinch two tapes together, read one and write the other. It ate tapes. Eventually as the heads eroded, the gap in the heads was too wide. Forget where it went. Like many other things. The tape is threaded all wrong. The top left reel should feed to the post to the left of the normal track and back up to top right. The switch in between controls them. __________________ . .Without freedom of speech we wouldn't know who all the idiots are. -- anonymous poster ____________________ . .Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do.