Driver for Overland tape library

[Man-wai CHANG]

> This planet.  He's confusing the general deterioration of the adhesion 
> of the magnetic oxide on the tape with the fact that the stuff on the 
> tape is already oxidized, but magnetic tape does deteriorate.  Ask any 

The recording "particles" are already oxidized? I didn't know that. In
fact, no one ever taught me about production of tapes in the past, while
I didn't have time to do a google search now.  Thanks.

> audio recording studio in LA where they put tape that they expected to 
> have usable 10 years down the road.  I can personally attest to the 
> oxide layer literally falling off the backing of old tape when taken out 
> of the vault and run through the transport.

You meant if the particles are still sticking to the tape surface, the
tape would not deterioate?


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