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But going by recent stories in the news, your tapes will still be
readable when everyone else's backup CDs are only good to scare the
birds off their vegetable patches.
--
Stuart Baldwin

It is true ... they still work! Made things to work back then and the
tolerances for reading the data off the tape were obviously good enough to
withstand 20 years of degradation!

But, remember to run them through every so often, as you can get
print-through, especially on long-play tapes.

--
Rusty Hinge
No m'lud, it wasn't a sneg. My joints creak.