Using DC6250's in an archive 2150S/E

[Richard Foulk]

>>In general, the 250 meg tapes look and act just like the 150's.  They are
>>well worth the $4.00 additional cost (that runs out at $0.04 per meg, one
>>of the best dollar-to-meg ratios I have ever seen).
>
>I was told that the ceramic heads on the 2150S will support the
>250 megabytes tapes where as the metal heads won't.
>

This doesn't make much sense, to me anyway.  If the 250meg tapes are
just longer then how could the head design have anything to do with
it?  (Disregarding head-life issues.)



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Richard Foulk		richard at pegasus.com