OT: SLR 5 Tape drive vs DAT

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 05:15:00PM -0500, Bill Vermillion wrote:
> Read would usually be the operative word - because you problaby
> upgrade because of space problems.  I'd have to look at the charts
> from the mfrs - but most QIC media can be read - but there are some
> that can not.  Most of my knowledge started so long ago when our
> school got a Brush SoundMirror audio tape machine and I later
> recorded our high school band on one - and got hooked on magnetic
> media.  That's been close to 50 years ago.   I worked with audio
> tape daily in broadcast before I moved to recording where I used
> a LOT of tape.  My least amount of experience is in data - but
> magnetic technology is all the same at the heart of it.
> 
> Recording has always fascinated me since the first time I heard my
> voice recorded and played back - when I was probably about 8 years
> old on a friend of my father Wilcox-Gay Recordio - with platic
> coated paper record.  That was soemtime during WWII.

Bill?

Go write a book.

Or better yet: I'll just go prune your anecdotes out of my list
archive, and do it for you.  :-)

Cheers,
-- jra
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