On Nov 3, 2004, at 12:42 AM, James Fraser wrote:
on 11-1-04 10:48 PM, Jackman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Forgive the ignorance, but I believe it was the Ampex tapes which used iron oxide coatings went bad after a specific time and had to be baked (eight hours at 130 degrees F, according to John Melancamp) in order to keep the coatings intact.
Holy smokes! D'you have a good link for that?
I can just picture some geek hovering anxiously in front of the family oven.
Join the reel to reel group. We talk about baking tapes all the time. :)
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