From: Steve Simon <steve@quintile.net>
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] reading historic magnetic tapes
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2023 10:12:15 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6778F07B-DD74-4F04-A877-7D3751E96317@quintile.net> (raw)
i worked for some years on video and film archive restoration.
baking old, badly stored magnetic tapes prior to reading them is a common practice.
my favourite was a story of a rock band (i think the stones) who wanted to play an old 24 track master tape but discovered it seemed to be stuck together.
there is a nasty affliction of mag tapes called sticky vinegar syndrome, so they did the right thing and sent a section of tape for analysis.
the results came back: the tape had suffered impregnation with “vodka and coke”.
some things never change.
-Steve
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2023-01-28 10:12 Steve Simon [this message]
2023-01-28 19:29 ` [TUHS] " James Frew
2023-01-28 20:12 ` Michael Kjörling
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