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From: dave@helm.UUCP (David Goldblatt)
Newsgroups: net.decus
Subject: MicroVAX II
Message-ID: <553@helm.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 30-Jul-86 18:19:15 EDT
Article-I.D.: helm.553
Posted: Wed Jul 30 18:19:15 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 9-Aug-86 01:36:48 EDT
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Organization: helm, Farmingdale, Long Island, NY
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Keywords: TK-50 tape drive

[ Here it comes just a walkin' down the street, singing "eat me.. eat me.." ]

	At my place of employment [not helm - I just leach their computer]
we have a MicroVAX II, 71Meg drive, and sometimes one TK-50 tape drive.
Has anyone besides me had grief with the TK-50?  Ours failed one day [more
than once, but this was the final straw..] when the leader slipped off,
which from what I hear is a common occurrence, and promptly shredded itself.
It is now somewheres in Illinois being fixed by DEC.  We had a temporary
drive installed, and 45 minutes after installation, it too died on us. 
Fortunately, we managed to fix it [leader got hung up].  Does anyone out
there have any recommendations on alternatives to the TK-50?  Unfortunately,
it is DEC's media distribution method, so we're not going to be able to
rid ourselves of it, but basically I need something to frequently back up our
hard drive onto.  Any info would be appreciated.

-dg-

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