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Subject: Re: [TUHS] tape "baking" [was PL/I stuff - was: Book Recommendation
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On 11/27/21 9:39 AM, Al Kossow wrote:
> On 11/27/21 8:07 AM, Steve Nickolas wrote:
> 
>>> Ampex patent 5,236,790 says 54C for 16 hours.
> 
> There are a few other tricks, like forcing air through the tape during baking
> that we came up with in the 00s. There are others, like using 32 track 3490 MR
> head stacks for recovery.
> 

https://patents.google.com/patent/CA2817359A1