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On Nov 4, 10:21 pm, CheetahHugger wrote:
Why you think there has been such a massive campaign to have people send
in equipment for recycling and at the same time promote digital as the
new future?
because they know it won't last, my father's records all play, my old
tapes from 1980 still play, my cd's with pictures burned in 2004 are
unreadable, i do have backups.
The cd's were bought from TDK and advertised as archive grade.
guess who didn't made the standard.

Cheetah

Well I have CDRs nearly 10 years old that are still OK. We bake tapes
at work (135 F for 12 hours) to get them to play on the 1978 Ampex 2"
quadruplex VTR. My turntable is OK but you can't get a replacement
stylus (Shure V15 type V) anymore. 50 years is a LONG time to expect
electronics to keep working. You might be dead by then, I certainly
will be and its pretty arrogant to assume whatever task those old
machines do couldn't be done by newer people and machinery.

GG


If you stored items of hardware in evacuated containers are there components
that will fail if subjected to 0 psi ?
Will hermetically sealed crystal oscillators explode for example ?

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