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

[David Lennick]

On 8/3/2011 8:58 AM, Don Cox wrote:
> 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.
>
> Regards
Only on tapes you made before the advent of Hi-Fi recorders, of course. And 
those were around by the mid 80s.

dl