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16th May 2020, 4:35 pm | #61 | |
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Re: Predicted life of audio recorded on magnetic tape
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16th May 2020, 5:58 pm | #62 |
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Re: Predicted life of audio recorded on magnetic tape
And one of his assertions is plain nonsense. The two K4s Mullin found at Frankfurt were not the only "sanctioned" AC bias machines in Germany - RRG had been running AC bias across the network since 1942, and the RRG stereo machine was also AC bias. This journalistic glossing-over of points the author doesn't understand is not uncommon, and erodes trust in the rest of the work.
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16th May 2020, 7:17 pm | #63 |
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Re: Predicted life of audio recorded on magnetic tape
Snap Andrew! I take your point Ted but I still like the book overall. There was something he mentioned or I found when going through one of the Bletchley books that I couldn't [trace relating to one of the German recorders I think]. I'll get back to you for advice, if I can find out what it was-I wrote it down somewhere Thanks for the update Barretter. It sort of confirms my comment about a need for a more central integration. The NSA had an outpost, not in "that London", but Clitheroe Castle... circa 1983!
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16th May 2020, 10:33 pm | #65 |
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It seems that the sound archive at Clitheroe Castle was the North West Sound Archive, a collection of recordings relating to life in the North West and not connected to the National Sound Archive as such.
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16th May 2020, 10:58 pm | #66 |
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Oh dear. Thanks for that Barretter. A bit Monty Python eh? Not the "Peoples Front of Judea" but the "Judean Peoples Front" It still makes my point though
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12th Jun 2020, 11:40 am | #67 | |
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I don't know how long it will be good for, but I've got a digital copy of it now, so the recording is saved. This was only a small tape, one of those World Record Club recordings, so I don't know how it would be on something larger like a 7 inch reel. I have a particularly nasty 7 inch AGFA which I will try in the rice once I find a large enough container. |
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