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- From: grtorlba@sumax.seattleu.edu (George Torralba)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Archiver Viper 150 MB Tape Drive
- Message-ID: <4862@sumax.seattleu.edu>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 16:26:34 GMT
- References: <wPxrr*A70@birdland.UUCP> <1992Aug5.182232.21911@cbnewsi.cb.att.com> <1992Aug13.063350.8228@ckctpa.UUCP>
- Organization: Seattle University, Seattle WA
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- In article <1992Aug13.063350.8228@ckctpa.UUCP> crash%ckctpa@tct.com (Frank "Crash" Edwards) writes:
- >
- >This is not a good idea. 3M's toll-free hotline has told me that
- >reading/writing using the DC600A cartridges will eventually wear out
- >the tape head. The figure I got was "after approximately 1000 hours".
- >The DC6150 and DC6250 tapes do not have as abrasive a magnetic coating
- >on them and are considered "ok".
-
- >Throw out those DC600A's or see if you can sell them!
- >
- >Frank "Crash" Edwards King Marine Electronics, Inc.
- >Home: 813/786-3675 Work: 813/530-3411
-
- I hope that if you do sell them that you don't hide the fact mentioned
- above. If you do, then you're no better that those corporations who
- dump unsafe, if not deadly, consumer items not approved in the US to
- third world countries who doesn't know (aren't given) the fact(s).
-
- George (from the Philippines--a third world country)
-
- BTW, I know what caveat emptor means.
-