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Originally Posted by Dwight
Given that the recently discovered Apollo 9 telemetry tape in Australia was playable after being stored for 30+ years in an attic, there is a good chance that relatively better stored tapes will also be similarly playable. But as you say Jay, there are no guarantees.
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Hope springs eternal. Since telemetry was stored on 9-track tape instead of in a custom format, there's a better margin of tolerance. I wish I'd had their drives when I was trying to resurrect my 9-track tapes. For every success story there's a horror story: for example, one of the stellar guitar solos from Boston's
Third Stage album whose master tape welded itself to the capstan wheel after being stored for only a couple of years.