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To: Klaus B. Biggers who wrote (26996)	1/6/1998 8:31:00 PM
From: Marshall	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 33268

Well, I'm unsure what's on those reels but they have huge hubs holes. I remember some sort of hard drive you could see into, had a tall stack of disks about 18" in diameter. If I recall you could actually change the "cartridge" on those. Never used the mylar tape, we still used paper on a CNC machine in the mid 70s.

To: Klaus B. Biggers who wrote (26996)	1/6/1998 9:42:00 PM
From: Franklin M. Humphreys	Respond to of 33268

>>>>>Could never get them out because static electricity made them stick to everything.<<<<<< That is why they changed so the chaff remained attached to the tape on one portion of it's perimiter. Consistent with the change to the "pop-top" can. The disposable tabs were becoming quite a problem, ecologically speaking. Also, the little chips or "punches" from the 80-column type IBM card were quite hazardous even after being thrown from a 20th-story window in a large quantity because they tended to fall as a mass. Frank