Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site mordor.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!mtuxo!mtunh!mtung!mtunf!ariel!vax135!petsd!pesnta!hplabs!qantel!dual!mordor!@S1-A.ARPA,@MIT-MC.ARPA:MINSKY@MIT-OZ From: @S1-A.ARPA,@MIT-MC.ARPA:MINSKY@MIT-OZ Newsgroups: net.space Subject: SPACE Digest V5 #203 Gyroscopic reels Message-ID: <2535@mordor.UUCP> Date: Sun, 7-Jul-85 04:09:50 EDT Article-I.D.: mordor.2535 Posted: Sun Jul 7 04:09:50 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 9-Jul-85 05:41:16 EDT Sender: daemon@mordor.UUCP Lines: 6 From: MINSKY%MIT-OZ@MIT-MC.ARPA The obvious solution to the tape problem is simply to use a loop of fan-folded tape. It will not change its moment of inertia at all and will save on space and reel. Probably too obvious to have been thought of.