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Old April 13th 05, 03:43 AM
mc
 
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BTW, speaking of tapes.. I read that the company that made Irish and
Ampex tape has closed. Looks like everyone has been going to CD-Rs.

Who still makes audio recording tape? I thought Ampex was the last.


Whoa! Right now I have four shoeboxes of old Morse-code tapes sitting
on the workbench waiting to be carried out to the trashcan. Should I
advertise them on Ebay instead?


Depends. Some tapes (reportedly mostly from the 1970s) disintegrate. A
couple of years ago I had no trouble playing my tapes from the late 1960s,
but...