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Re: [ARSCLIST] Longevity of half-track reel



----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Warren" <richard.warren@xxxxxxxx>
> Quarter-track tapes on 1/4-inch tape have such narrow tracks as to be
> little better than audiocassettes for longevity and are extremely
sensitive
> to head alignment and differences between machines. So they are certainly
> less reliable than half or full track tapes.
I'm not an archivist (though I might qualify considering the stuff I've
accumulated)...but I have a fair number of cassettes I taped in the
1980-83 period, and even a few I taped back in 1968 or so (old Philips
tapes from when that was all you could buy)...and they are all still
playable.

Steven C. Barr


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