Re: [ARSCLIST] The worst cassette tape years

[Christie Peterson <cpeterso@xxxxxxxxx>]

Tom Fine wrote:
> If someone sent me a Scotch cassette, particularly a Highlander type, 
> I'd first transplant it into a new housing. Then I'd see how it 
> played. As long as it didn't squeal or obviously wow because it was 
> mechanically un-sound or stuck together, I'd make the transfer and 
> count myself lucky. 
As you were typing, Tom, I was making a digital copy of a Highlander 
brand tape from 1971 that played perfectly.  As it turned out to contain 
some pretty historically valuable material, I'm going to count myself 
double-lucky today (one: I found it; two: the transfer worked).  Maybe I 
should buy a lotto ticket on the way home tonight . . .

Christie Peterson
Project Archivist, Muskie Archives & Special Collections
Bates College
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Lewiston, ME 04240-6018
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