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In a message dated 3/19/2006 6:40:23 AM Eastern Standard Time, [log in to unmask] writes: Wow, the tape fairies are in the air! I had the same experience with an early 60's reel of AudioTape mylar-backed on Friday evening. ***************** I've yet to have a problem playing a tape made between 1950 and 1965. Most of this was the cheapest tape I could buy so I'm not talking about high quality, just that it is now just as good (bad) as it was when new. Unfortunately around 1980 I spent a considerable amount of time transferring and editing material from that era to new, professional grade tape. I am having trouble playing some of those transfers. Now should I go back to the originals and spend the time again, though less with the help of digital editing, to make new copies on a possibly even less durable medium? I'm too old to maintain the copies myself for another 25 years, and who else will? Mike Csontos