Re: Can I PLEASE get a straight answer on modifying a Cr02 Type II tape for

[Mike Rivers]

In article ed.com> writes:

> I don't have a DCC tape to compare to a regular chrome tape.
>
> Can someone PLEASE give me possibly a link to a website with a
> tutorial (and possibly pics) for doing this?

We do Google. You can do Google. If someone hasn't pointed you to a
web site within about fifteen seconds of your post, there isn't one.
Nor do I expect there to be.

Look at the transport. Do you see something that might want to poke
into a notch in a cassette? If you do, put a notch there. I'll bet if
you poke at things, you can see an indicator change, indicating that
there's a digital tape inserted.

> Or if someone can reffer me to a picture of a modified tape, even
> better!

Maybe it would be best to find a picture of a real tape and copy that.


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I'm really Mike Rivers - )

[Roger W. Norman]

**** it, better to order real DCC tapes and be done with it. I'm almost
willing to erase all my old, only use once tapes (yeah, right) and sell them
to him for pennies on the dollar to shut him up. It reminds me of us
cutting knotches in 5 1/4" floppies so we could get another 180 KB of
storage from the backside but the cost of actually getting some DCC tapes
that will record for 45 minutes per direction is less than those 5 1/4"
floppies at the time. At least we had a real financial interest.

--


Roger W. Norman
SirMusic Studio
Purchase your copy of the Fifth of RAP CD set at www.recaudiopro.net.
See how far $20 really goes.




"Mike Rivers" > wrote in message
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>
> In article ed.com>
writes:
>
> > I don't have a DCC tape to compare to a regular chrome tape.
> >
> > Can someone PLEASE give me possibly a link to a website with a
> > tutorial (and possibly pics) for doing this?
>
> We do Google. You can do Google. If someone hasn't pointed you to a
> web site within about fifteen seconds of your post, there isn't one.
> Nor do I expect there to be.
>
> Look at the transport. Do you see something that might want to poke
> into a notch in a cassette? If you do, put a notch there. I'll bet if
> you poke at things, you can see an indicator change, indicating that
> there's a digital tape inserted.
>
> > Or if someone can reffer me to a picture of a modified tape, even
> > better!
>
> Maybe it would be best to find a picture of a real tape and copy that.
>
>
> --
> I'm really Mike Rivers - )

[Mike Rivers]

In article > writes:

> It reminds me of us
> cutting knotches in 5 1/4" floppies so we could get another 180 KB of
> storage from the backside

I never did that, but I used to tape over the "permanent" (no sliding
shutter) write protect holes in 3-1/2" floppys that contained demo
programs so I could recycle them. This was back when 5-1/4" disks were
down to around a dime a piece, but the new 3-1/2" ones were around a
buck (before rebates, of course).


--
I'm really Mike Rivers - )

[dt king]

"Mike Rivers" > wrote in message
news:znr1062618512k@trad...
>
> In article > writes:
>
> > It reminds me of us
> > cutting knotches in 5 1/4" floppies so we could get another 180 KB of
> > storage from the backside
>
> I never did that, but I used to tape over the "permanent" (no sliding
> shutter) write protect holes in 3-1/2" floppys that contained demo
> programs so I could recycle them. This was back when 5-1/4" disks were
> down to around a dime a piece, but the new 3-1/2" ones were around a
> buck (before rebates, of course).

Then AOL would send you a free 3.5" every other week or so, bless their
hearts.

dtk

[Roger W. Norman]

Geez, at least I always bought my floppies! <g>

--


Roger W. Norman
SirMusic Studio
Purchase your copy of the Fifth of RAP CD set at www.recaudiopro.net.
See how far $20 really goes.




"dt king" > wrote in message
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> "Mike Rivers" > wrote in message
> news:znr1062618512k@trad...
> >
> > In article > writes:
> >
> > > It reminds me of us
> > > cutting knotches in 5 1/4" floppies so we could get another 180 KB of
> > > storage from the backside
> >
> > I never did that, but I used to tape over the "permanent" (no sliding
> > shutter) write protect holes in 3-1/2" floppys that contained demo
> > programs so I could recycle them. This was back when 5-1/4" disks were
> > down to around a dime a piece, but the new 3-1/2" ones were around a
> > buck (before rebates, of course).
>
> Then AOL would send you a free 3.5" every other week or so, bless their
> hearts.
>
> dtk
>

[Justin Ulysses Morse]

Roger W. Norman > wrote:

> Geez, at least I always bought my floppies! <g>

The only time I ever bought any, the rebate was more than the purchase
price. Aren't CDRs supposed to be getting about that cheap now? $0.20
is highway robbery!

ulysses

[Roger W. Norman]

I don't know about CDR prices now. I got about 500 last year and haven't
finished them yet (got about 80 left). But DVDR prices aren't too bad,
although I have to admit, I haven't even kept up with what a +R or -R means.
I've just got a stack of Rs that I use for archiving and another stack of
DVD-RAM for temporary project storage. Most of my projects in the last year
have either gone to pressing or the client does their own CDR burning. Or,
I've been playing on other people's projects and the work goes out over the
internet. I'll bet I haven't burned 100 CDRs this year. In fact, I bought
this 52X Plexiwriter that Kurt mentioned and it's still sitting on top of
the stack of compressors. Open computer virtually ready to run up in my
wife's office which I was just going to use for burning, but that's an idea
that apparently hasn't happened yet, even with all the parts in place. My
wife just thinks I'm lazy, but hey, if you haven't come up with a use for it
yet, why bother?

But overall, on virtually every format front, things are much cheaper today,
but then we're talking about 20 years of development, even leading into CDR
burners and media. I remember being at Planning Research Corp in the early
80s when we were starting to work with actually pressing discs in-house as
memory systems. By the time I got to the US Army Material Command HQ we'd
already started getting a fairly large number of CD-ROM based systems while
the tech support guys were still having problems learning Windows 3.0.
We're in a pretty fast moving time in technology right now and I supposed
that you could say once a technology gets down to a pennies per basis that
it's probably a technology that's soon going by the wayside.

--


Roger W. Norman
SirMusic Studio
Purchase your copy of the Fifth of RAP CD set at www.recaudiopro.net.
See how far $20 really goes.




"Justin Ulysses Morse" > wrote in message
...
> Roger W. Norman > wrote:
>
> > Geez, at least I always bought my floppies! <g>
>
> The only time I ever bought any, the rebate was more than the purchase
> price. Aren't CDRs supposed to be getting about that cheap now? $0.20
> is highway robbery!
>
> ulysses