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Operation Caretaker (Popular Computing Weekly) | Operation Caretaker/Operation Alignment |
ALIGNED Operation Caretaker may sound like a well organised Fifth Form prank, but in fact is a tape care and cleaning kit from Global Software. This kit consists of two cassettes - a head cleaner, - de-magnetiser and a test program, together with a small screwdriver. Running the test program gives a histographic representation of the cassette deck performance - plus some figures; number of read errors, percentage speed error and overall read status. This, in itself, would probably be a useful kit to have. . . after all, read errors are most annoying things. However, I do have some doubts about the package. The instructions are sparse -and are not machine specific, in that they are supposed to cater for the whole range of machines the kit is produced for. They don't. After several attempts, several members of the Popular team could not work out how to align the heads on the Amstrad. Our read status was quoted as 'Bad'. . . although I can't say that our machines have ever given us any trouble. Mmmmm. . . what does this all mean? Popular Computing Weekly |
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