> On 2019-01-03, at 17:51, Mia Magnusson <mia@plea.se> wrote: > > In practice the cassettes did differ rather much between models and > manufacturers.[...] the tapes differed a lot within each type. They differed a huge lot! Especially among the Type I where one could get anything from a really good medium to a totally useless thing, which only purpose was to spread out and leave dirt on everything it came to touch. > This must surely have happened on diskettes also, Yes. Never had a diskette, which made you open the drive and clean the heads afterward? ;-) But with diskettes I never encountered the kind of crap I saw on the compact cassettes. In general it was much better and far, far less of dirt scattering. > but as the media is > used in a different way the only important things would be that the > noise is under a certain threshold and the "treble response" is good > enough so data won't get lost at higher bit rates, and of course drop > outs. Yes. -- SD! - https://e4aws.silverdr.com/Received on 2019-01-04 11:02:23
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