The worst thing regarding tape storage I ever witnessed was at a commercial station in Sydney. A one-off master which was on loan from a competitor station for a tribute show special was stored near a machine which along with being able to clean old quad masters, could also erase said tape if a little switch was toggled prior to the cleaning command. Guess what happened with the master tape on it for "cleaning"?

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