On Fri, 2010-12-17 at 12:05 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > 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: > > > > > On Fri, 2010-12-17 at 05:30 -0500, gene heskett wrote: > > > > On Friday, December 17, 2010 05:15:04 am Philipp �berbacher did opine: > > > > [...] > > > > > > > > > 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. > > > > > > 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. > > > > > > > > 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? > > > > > > 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. > > 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.
Resp. IIRC the IO audio amps were build with tubes! > > Because the tapes were stored spooled to the end, there even was no > audible crosstalk at the beginning of the recordings. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev