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

[Robert M. Bratcher Jr.]

My non hifi (mono edge track) tapes seem to play back just fine. Of course the the hifi track tapes do sound better.....


From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
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>Sent: Wednesday, August 3, 2011 9:14 AM
>Subject: Re: [78-L] Does this episode of Hoarders apply to you?
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>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
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