🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <p.kerr-0509...@news.auckland.ac.nz>,
p.k...@auckland.ac.nz (Peter Kerr) wrote:

> jab...@goodnet.com (the Jabberwock) wrote:
> > Turns out the tape storage had been moved from one desk to another.  The
> > first desk was metal, the second wood.  And when the janitors ran their
> > heavy-duty floor waxer (with that hefty electric motor on top) under the
> > shelf of the wood desk... guess what!
> > 
> > (Can you say, "bulk erase?")
> 
> sheesh, that's out of a.f.c archives, only when I heard it 28 years ago
> it was a tape being taken across London, and the clerk/courier put
> his briefcase with the tape under his seat on the Tube (London
> Metro/Underground) right on top of the 600 volt DC motor...
> 

My experience many moons ago (over 20 years!) was putting a 9 track tape
in the back seat of my VW bug.  The combination of heat generated (it was
a grey colored car), and the fact that the starter motor is VERY close to
where the tape was sitting for over a week, caused the tape to be
unserviceable.  I got very angry, and decided that the best place for 9
track tapes was UNDER the seat where it was both cooler, and farther away
from the starter motor.  I never had problems after that.

Now days, we all use 3.5 inch floppies, but they didn't exist then...

-- 
Tom Watson
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