[Info-vax] TK50 - this is annoying...

[Bob Koehler]

In article <2383fac5-e7af-4aa9-8057-ddef314900de at r9g2000vbf.googlegroups.com>, John Wallace <johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk> writes:
> 
> I've probably said this already elsewhere... I did some work once with
> some nice folk in the professional/broadcast audio business. They
> needed their recording media+device to be 100% reliable in terms of
> NEVER EVER losing data (digital equivalent of a studio master tape,
> lose it and you're out of luck). These folk preferred not to use DDS/
> DAT, even though another company in the group pioneered it. Some
> flavour of magneto-optical was their working media of choice (which
> will tell those in the know that this was a while back).
> 

   Hm, then they may have since lost their data.  Magneto-optical has
   lifetimes.  Writeable optical has lifetimes.  Magnetic has lifetimes,
   which can be greatly influenced by proper handling.

   Knowing proper handling, following what you know, and eventually
   making new copies is the only way to approach 100% reliable
   recording.