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From: kev@hpcpbla.HP.COM (Kevin Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: what's a 9142?
Message-ID: <660014@hpcpbla.HP.COM>
Date: 24 Aug 90 06:38:14 GMT
References: <WAYNE.90Aug23120104@dsndata.uucp>
Organization: HP Computer Peripherals Bristol, UK
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9142's got obsoleted a few years back.

They were supposed to be "low cost" 1/4" tape drives.
Price erosion of the 9144's meant that 9142's wern't worth buying.

If the tape has been written with 9142 data previously, then I
wouldn't use it in a 9144/45.


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