[geeks] storageworks

[Eric Dittman]

> > Those flexistrip (may actually be a specific vendor's cables,
> > but everyone I know calls them all flexistrip) cables are very
> > delicate.  They are also simple.  Unfortunately they are also
> > impossible to replicate for a hobbyist.
> 
>    Hobbyists nothin', man...They're impossible to replicate for most 
> companies, too.  As far as I'm aware, the only company that makes a 
> machine that creates them is 3M, and it's hundreds of thousands of 
> dollars.
> 
>    I'm going to try to solder in some runs of wire-wrap wire to bridge 
> around the torn traces.

I've thought about doing that, but instead I bought a DLT
loader and stuck the drive in there.  I just bought another
DLT4000 for $60, and I want to use that in the narrow SE
SW shelf I stuck in my 4100 to hold my three-CD SBB, so I'm
going to revisit that idea soon.
-- 
Eric Dittman
dittman at dittman.net
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