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[Dave Frederickson]

Larry Atherton refurbished the tape drive on my 85B and it works wonderfully, but it was not cheap. A new, taller capstan was made with a lathe and the refurb included four new QIC tapes.

As Paul said, old tapes fail in many ways and are highly unreliable. If you have an old tape I would suggest obtaining new drive bands from Athana before attempting data recovery. At best I've been able to recover a few files from an old tape using Plasti-Bands as a replacement drive band.

There's an excellent 9825/DC-100 story here:
http://www.hp9825.com/html/qic_and_the_dead.html

Dave