OT: SLR 5 Tape drive vs DAT

[Bill Vermillion]

> 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.  :-)

That would save me a lot of work - and I can't seem to find time
to do what I want to do anyway.

It's really tough being a legend in your own mind :-)

Bill
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Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com