Fluke tapes are made by Verbatim and Braemar. These are the only tapes that will work. The drive is a special one unfortunately but is often serviceable. I find that a 3.2CM drive belt replaces the old one in the drive by the way. There are a couple of people here with spare blank tapes they might sell you. I can make copies of tapes for others that don't have RS-232, but I might have to charge (trades?) for this service, others with working drives should be able to help you as well build a library of tapes for common repairs. As for the RS-232 option, it should be possible to make a simple modern adapter to replace the old monster block, it isn't that fancy - just data lines going to a 232 IC, surely there are simpler solutions, like hack an old PC serial port card to take the place... John :-#)# At 03:00 PM 19/06/2002 -0400, Greg Baumgratz wrote:
Ok, I'll ask...are the Fluke tapes proprietary or will others work?
I was lucky enough to buy a 9010a advertised as 'can be used with a PC' that doesn't have the RS232 option. Now, what does the PC do? Yell at the 9010?
On a related note - anyone have a dead 9010 with the RS232 option that I can cannibalize?
Thanks, Greg