Posted by Richard Crowley on 02/02/07 21:49

"Rick Merrill" wrote ...
> Richard Crowley wrote:
>> "Rick Merrill" wrote ...
>>> Whatever happened to the "Mission Impossible" self destructing tapes?-)
>>
>> Dunno, but I've got plenty of self-destructing DVDRs.
>
> Tayo yuden ? (sp?)

None of my T-Y have failed that I know of.

But that still doesn't convince me that field-writable
optical discs are anything remotely resembling an
"archival medium".

>> OTOH, I've got a 7-inch reel of audio "tape" where the
>> substrate is paper (rather than any kind of plastic.)
>> ~50 years old and better than some of the more
>> conventional acetate, etc. 1/4-inch reel-to-reel tape
>> I've got. The paper tape might burn better than any
>> of the plastic variety, but I'm not going to try it.
>
> In our pre-historic days the media was not yet cost-reduced!-)

My paper mag-tape is on a metal reel that looks like it
came off my dad's old 8mm movie projector.

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