22 Jul
2018
22 Jul
'18
8:52 a.m.
On 07/22/2018 06:33 AM, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
Half-inch open-reel tape at 1600 PE density. Should be good for 50
years at least.
--Chuck
On Jul 21, 2018, at 3:25 PM, Carlo Pisani via
cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
...
and what about magnetic-tapes? (e.g. DDS4, DLT, LTO2)
which of them lasts for the most?
I don't know specifically. I do know that plain old audio tapes may fail -- I have
perhaps 100 cassettes recorded in the 1970s. Most of them are fine, but essentially all
of them that are Fuji brand have failed utterly.