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Re: [ARSCLIST] Risk assessment tool Q3--DAT
on 1/10/06 7:02 PM, Tom Fine at tflists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 1. drop a tape and watch out for data dropouts. Just like a U-Matic and to a
> lesser extent a VHS video cassette. Dropping a DAT can and usually does
> scramble the magnetic particles in one or more parts of the tape. Digital
> dropouts are about as graceful as video dropouts.
This is news to me. I used DAT regularly for at least 12 years and must have
dropped and otherwise abused a hundreds of them. I cannot ever recall a
dropout which I attributed to a dropped DAT. What is your source for this
information?
> 2. magnetic media, with actually quite dense storage-per-square-inch, subject
> to all the erasure and deterioration problems of other magnetic media. I'm not
> sure what happens to DATs as the signal fades -- has anyone had any experience
> with this?
Do you have any more information on this? I have never heard of a signal
fading on magnetic tape.
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Konrad Strauss
Director of Recording Arts
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Jacobs School of Music
Indiana University
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