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From: doug@terak.UUCP (Doug Pardee)
Newsgroups: net.video
Subject: Re: Life of Video Cassette?
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Date: Thu, 17-Jan-85 13:42:30 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 17 13:42:30 1985
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>    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.
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Doug Pardee -- Terak Corp. -- !{hao,ihnp4,decvax}!noao!terak!doug