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On 23/03/05, Steven C. Barr wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Richard Warren" <[log in to unmask]> >> Quarter-track tapes on 1/4-inch tape have such narrow tracks as to be >> little better than audiocassettes for longevity and are extremely > sensitive >> to head alignment and differences between machines. So they are >> certainly less reliable than half or full track tapes. > I'm not an archivist (though I might qualify considering the stuff > I've accumulated)...but I have a fair number of cassettes I taped in > the 1980-83 period, and even a few I taped back in 1968 or so (old > Philips tapes from when that was all you could buy)...and they are all > still playable. Likewise I have a couple of hundred from the same period, and they don't seem to have degenerated much if at all. There may be a bit of print-through here and there, but basically they sound better now than when they were made (because the playback machine is better). Regards -- Don Cox [log in to unmask]