Hello tape O phials:

Before there was cheep memory chips in our computers there was reel to reel
tape as the primary storage device for main frame computers.

I remember the science fiction movies with the computers in the background
taking up a full wall and the reel to reel tape just a spinning.


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Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 5:47 AM
Subject: Re: Tale of the Tape: Audiophiles Bemoan The End of the Reel


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: Steve Hoad
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: What starts as a "high fidelity recordings" change could spell the end of
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