XWindows DUUUDE: you will NEVER get a straight answer from this Dorsey
guy. He appears all patient and cooperative and all, BUT it's just a
ploy:
I have been asking him for years now how to modify my 8-track
cartridges to read the 18-minute gap from an Echoplex and it's just
DELAY DELAY DELAY.
You should try another newsgroup. Quickly.
In article <bj33fr$ic3$1@panix2.panix.com>, Scott Dorsey
<kludge@panix.com> wrote:
> Windows X <arb226@earthlink.net> wrote:
> >So can i get a straightforward answer on this please?
> >
> >I don't have a DCC tape to compare to a regular chrome tape.
>
> So you have a DCC recorder with NO tapes at all?
>
> You might be able to look and see where the feeler gadget at the top of
> the tape is.
>
> >Can someone PLEASE give me possibly a link to a website with a
> >tutorial (and possibly pics) for doing this?
>
> I doubt such a thing exists. Get a DCC tape and you'll find it is pretty
> obvious to see where the sensor notch is.
>
> >Or if someone can reffer me to a picture of a modified tape, even
> >better!
>
> Nearly ten years ago there was a discussion in Stereophile of doing it,
> probably
> with pictures. They decided it was a bad idea.
> --scott
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