[time-nuts] (OT) Frequency and duration of roll out

M. Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Sun Feb 22 16:58:09 UTC 2009


In message: <11721.1235293756 at critter.freebsd.dk>
            "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk at phk.freebsd.dk> writes:
: In message <49A11470.6060002 at tiscali.co.uk>, Dave Ackrill writes:
: 
: >If you wanted to cheese off the instructor, you went to the roll of thin 
: >cotton tape, hanging on a roll on the wall, and pulled hard.  The weight 
: >of the tape coming off the roll was enough to spin the disk, thus 
: >bringing more tape off, which was heavy enough to spin the roll some 
: >more, so more tape came off, and so on.
: 
: This was a well know issue when manipulating the roll while splicing
: audiotapes.
: 
: The funny thing was, 2" tapes are really strong.
: 
: We tied an old studio worktape to the trailer-hook of a friends car
: when he got married.   The tape unrolled flawlessly, the roll
: clattered wonderfully on the cobbles, and when they turned out of
: the drive-way it snagged a lamppost and brought the car to a halt
: until the groom went out and cut the tape :-)

Try doing that with CDs :-)  

Warner



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