A Little Flat Tube Fun

[jeyurkon]

We used to use 9 track tape drives to store data from our experiments. There were a few occasions where the software said the data was being written to tape when in fact the drives were doing nothing. There's is a limited amount of beam time given to each experiment so this was serious.

Their solution was to put a TV camera on each tape drive and they used a Sony flat tube walkman type monitor to watch the drive.

John

[jr_tech]

Sounds like an unusual application that Sony probably never thought of.... MIBL? NSCL?

jr

[jeyurkon]

Originally Posted by jr_tech

Sounds like an unusual application that Sony probably never thought of.... MIBL? NSCL?

jr

NSCL. I had to look up Michigan Ion Beam Laboratory. I thought you were making a joke like "Men In Black Laboratory." Wish there was one, I'd apply.

John

[jr_tech]

Originally Posted by jeyurkon

I thought you were making a joke like "Men In Black Laboratory." Wish there was one, I'd apply.

John

Indeed, that sounds like it would be a cool place to work!

jr