17 Dec
2010
17 Dec
'10
12:05 p.m.
On Fri, 2010-12-17 at 05:57 -0500, gene heskett wrote:
On Friday, December 17, 2010 05:52:17 am Ralf Mardorf
did opine:
I corrected myself, it's just because you're looking younger on your
photos ;). Of cause, I guess the Telefunk - or was it AEG? - machines
were without tubes. The magnetic tape head had visible slots.
Because the tapes were stored spooled to the end, there even was no
audible crosstalk at the beginning of the recordings.
On Fri, 2010-12-17 at 05:30 -0500, gene heskett
wrote:
For analog tapes Dirk Brauner had Telefunken machines that are as old as
you are and they were better than a lot of modern machines ;).
I'll have to call you on that one, Ralf. It was some of your folks that
invented the wire recorder in about '38 or '39, and the coated paper tape
was sometime in the later 40's. I was born in '34. On Friday, December 17, 2010 05:15:04 am Philipp
�berbacher did opine:
[...]
Ok, my 40MB SCSI Seagate for the Atari is ok for more than 20 years,
heavy usage, several startups a day. Sometimes I need to start it 2 or 3
times, but than it's ok.
I guess it really depends on what you try to
achieve. Afaik the
average life-span of a HD is puny 2 years.
Some maybe. I have a 1Gb seacrate hawk I use on a TRS-80 Color
Computer that is a good 15 years old, and I hooked up an old Quantum
P40S beside it the other day that must be close to 18 years old. No
bad sectors were found when I did a logical verify of the surface. From what
I heard the magnetic tapes
used by for example ESA a long time ago have a life-span of 80
years. If 'store it good and forget' is what you're after then tape
seems like a good idea.
That seems to be a recipe for disaster. Will there be a working tape
drive to read those old tapes in even 40 years?