[78-L] Does this episode of Hoarders apply to you?

[Don Cox]

On 03/08/2011, Robert M. Bratcher Jr. wrote:

> Some of mine are 20 to 25 years old & they still play to this day.
> That Beethoven 7th VHS tape is 18 years old & played perfectly. Good
> storage & not playing them a lot helps I'm sure. One tape I recorded
> in the middle 80's, Mickey Rooney's version of The Last Mile taped off
> WGN played fine this afternoon. So they can last more than 10 years if
> you take good care of them but then maybe the south Texas climate
> helps too stored indoors with air conditioning.
> 
The soundtrack seems to go first, probably because it is a very narrow
track near the edge of the tape.

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Don Cox
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