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

[Robert M. Bratcher Jr.]

At 09:41 PM 10/7/2009, you wrote:
>----- 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

I've got cassette tapes close to 25 years old that still play ok....