Hewlett-Packard's House of Tape Torture

Last updated March 11, 2002 - This site is a mirror Mark Bixby's site by Tracy Johnson.
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    This classic video tape dates from 1988 and shipped with all 7980 reel tape drives.  Mark Bixby's real-life CE at the time was named Bob, same as the fictional CE on the tape, and this was good for much joking at his expense.  ;-)

    This video presentation is a general discussion of tape drives and the prevention of read/write errors.

    Hewlett-Packard systems, unlike some non-HP systems, do not allow the tape drive to write data/format errors to tape.  This feature provides 100% error free recording, thus assuring that errors introduced by contamination and normal tape wear will be easily corrected when the data is read.
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    Mark Bixby digitized this 16-minute production using a variety of encoding rates.  Choose the one that most closely matches your bandwidth:
    As this is being mirrored on the Empire server, if it turns out that downloads of this video hurts game-play, I'll simply remove the larger bandwidth versions.

    If you would like to host this version on your own server, please contact Mark Bixby below:
    Mark Bixby , mark@bixby.org