Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site terak.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!teddy!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!hao!noao!terak!doug From: doug@terak.UUCP (Doug Pardee) Newsgroups: net.video Subject: Re: Life of Video Cassette? Message-ID: <269@terak.UUCP> Date: Thu, 17-Jan-85 13:42:30 EST Article-I.D.: terak.269 Posted: Thu Jan 17 13:42:30 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 21-Jan-85 03:19:38 EST References: <4578@cbscc.UUCP> <632@voder.UUCP> Organization: Terak Corporation, Scottsdale, AZ, USA Lines: 7 > Seems to me that the only way a tape could wear out would be if the > oxide coating starts to flake off from too many loadings/unloadings or > just from a lot of use. The mechanism can wear out too. -- Doug Pardee -- Terak Corp. -- !{hao,ihnp4,decvax}!noao!terak!doug