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From: bc@cyb-eng.UUCP (Bill Crews)
Newsgroups: net.decus
Subject: Re: MicroVAX II
Message-ID: <946@cyb-eng.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 7-Aug-86 21:40:13 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug  7 21:40:13 1986
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> 	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-

Consider this a ditto to just about everything you said.  I have no answers;
I just like to share my misery.  Between DEC's lack of interest in fixing an
obviously unacceptable situation with their TK50 and their total lack of
interest in providing a disk formatting program (I think they MIGHT let us
have one for THOUSANDS of dollars), I find it difficult to become a DEC
enthusiast.  I'm still trying, though.  (I KNOW I am; everybody TELLS me!
:-)
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bc				Bill Crews @ NetCor Data International

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