Wrong About One Thing (Score 2, Interesting)

The Article was wrong about one thing tapes are definately a good storage medium. My Mum and Dad had some old real to real tapes sent over from england by their Mum and Dad, that were say over 30 yrs old. They lived in a shed for the last 20 yrs in a plastic bag going through tempreture variations from 0 degrees C at night to over 40 degrees C during the day throughout several years. I went to convert them to digital format and I thought I was going to have to spend weeks using a computer studio to refine the sound. But after all that abuse the tracks from these real to real tapes were of really good quality and it only took me an hour to clean them up.