OT: just for those intersted about analog tape

[John Esak]

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> Vaughan
> Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 5:37 PM
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> John Esak wrote:
>
> > Is this true?  If so, how would anyone ever get new tape for their old
> > machines?
>
> JE, you of all people should realize that this is capitalism at work.
> Someone will cobble up a line that can make the tape at a PROFIT. It
> doesn't take 250 people to make high quality tape.
>
> If someone's willing to pay, the market will supply.
>
> Look at Nexus. They figured out how to print on plastic very early in
> the game. Who knows. If you can print ink, why can you not print iron
> oxide at Nexus?


Yeah, I was surprised when we started making duct tape. I like the real
cloth-like duct tape, but we actually make the plastic kind. It is just
polyetylene that gets sent out to be smeared with duct tape goo.... plastic
duct tape sucks, though... so, just because it can be made by less than 250
people, doesn't make it good. :-)
JE