On Tuesday, November 24, 1998 6:17 AM, Tracy Johnson [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
wrote:
> When I worked for a DDS Drive manufacturing company the only thing I found
> that worked was go to the shop floor and use one of their tape degaussers.
                                                            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
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Howdy,

Ummmm.....did that 'bout '94 or '95 to some 90 meter DDS tapes.  Rendered
them totally unusable.
Guess it erased the preamble info or some such.  Haven't tried it on our DDS
II type stuff.

Aside:

While we were gassing (gaussing?) ourselves up with the degausser we tried
it on the mag stripe on
some credit cards and such to no effect.  What the devil they do to the
molecules in them strips?

jt