[78-L] ~ Re: "New media" for Victrolas?...

Steven C. Barr stevenc at interlinks.net
Wed Oct 7 19:41:00 PDT 2009


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Rice" <bobrice at snet.net>
> Plastics? Hmmm? Isn't that what CD 's are made from? Will ya be able to 
> play
> them 100 years fromn now IF there is a hundred years fron now?Well, my
> cassettes, and real to real tapes STILL play 40 years later!
>
In fact, I have a few cassettes I recorded in 1968 (I think)...the tapes are 
on the
Philips label, and I bought them at the "PX" in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, 
Germany
while stationed there with the USAF! As near as I can tell, they play as 
well as
they EVER did...?!

Steven C. Barr




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