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Re: [ARSCLIST] DAT Archival Housing
At 02:43 PM 2007-02-17, Farris Wahbeh wrote:
List,
Any suggestions on how to archival-ly house DAT tapes would be most helpful.
Are the plastic cases that they come with archival-ly sound? What
are some boxes that can be used
to house the tapes? Has anyone come across a box that fits both DAT
and CD's together?
I can't seem to find any in the Gaylord catalog.
That's because they and the machines they play on are not archival.
The only archival way of storing a DAT tape IMHO is to transfer it to
a digital repository or a gold phthalocyanine dye CD-R, with the
former method preferred. DATs are living on borrowed time. THey are
far more fragile than analog open reel and fewer machines were
produced (I think) and few if any machines are being made now...just
like open reel in a much shorter timeframe.
Cheers,
Richard
Richard L. Hess email: richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Aurora, Ontario, Canada (905) 713 6733 1-877-TAPE-FIX
Detailed contact information: http://www.richardhess.com/tape/contact.htm
Quality tape transfers -- even from hard-to-play tapes.