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From: lstowell@pyrnova.pyramid.com (Lon Stowell)
Newsgroups: rec.audio.high-end
Subject: Re: "LAST" tape/head treatment: SG gets a surprise
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Date: 15 Oct 90 13:08:42 GMT
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 Considering that this is the high-end board, this may get
 flamed..... but...      I have a friend with a Nakamichi
 RDAT set-up who just recently began portation of all his
 priceless reel-reel tapes over onto RDAT.   
 
 Unfortunately most of the older tapes had lost their lube and
 squealed like stuck pigs...    LAST saved the day...
 
 Too bad there is no inexpensive WORM recorder for real archival,
 but hopefully the RDAT tapes will last long enough till there
 is...
 
The WORM is the acronym for "Write Once, Read Many" technology.
Specifically a CD recorder for the home.  We have a Sony WORM
here at work, but who wants to buy a Pyramid at $200K just to
record and playback audio and/or video?  Or would that be ultra
high-end audion...

WORM would be able to record onto CD's which, rot rumors to the
contrary, would likely outlast ANY magnetic tape formulation....