Re: [ARSCLIST] Longevity of half-track reel

To: ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Longevity of half-track reel
From: "Steven C. Barr" <stevenc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 17:57:07 -0500
Comments: To: Association for Recorded Sound Discussion List <ARSCLIST@loc.gov>
Message-id: <009001c52ffb$a3c4af00$734efea9@interlinks.net>
References: <5.2.0.9.2.20050321091323.00b18580@rwarren.mail.yale.edu>
Reply-to: Association for Recorded Sound Discussion List <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxx>

----- 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

Follow-Ups:
- Re: [ARSCLIST] Longevity of half-track reel
  - From: Don Cox

References:
- Re: [ARSCLIST] Longevity of half-track reel
  - From: Richard Warren

Prev by Date: [ARSCLIST] Library of Congress vacancy - Chief Technology Officer for NAVCC
Next by Date: Re: [ARSCLIST] .wav file content information
Previous by thread: Re: [ARSCLIST] Longevity of half-track reel
Next by thread: Re: [ARSCLIST] Longevity of half-track reel
Index(es):
- Date
- Thread

[Table of Contents]

Re: [ARSCLIST] Longevity of half-track reel

[Subject index] [Index for current month] [Table of Contents]