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Re: C64 tapes gonna be interesting
09/13/18 11:49 PM
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>> Cassette collecting – the mould problem
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>> http://blog.system11.org/?p=2828
>I'm currently preparing to do a huge archival binge of VHS tapes I've picked up over the
>years, mostly off-the-air TV recordings from the 1980s and 1990s. Mold is a constant worry
>of mine.
As long as they weren't kept outdoors in a storage shed in the backyard [actual true scenario], your tapes should have a better chance of being readable.
A relative's former boyfriend was a 'doomsday prepper survivalist' and had kept somewhere of about 1500 to 2000 VHS tapes that taught survivalist training techniques in a storage shed in the backyard in Colorado. The boyfriend had nowhere else to store them. So the tapes went from a baked condition to a freezing condition all year long.
No loss imo because the handwritten labels on the various VHS tapes had questionable contents such as one of the tape's labels had a description that read "how to fend off aliens that are bigger than 15 feet tall with a handgun". You know......useful fighting reference material. 
The shed was eventually torn down and the workers doing construction work probably had a laugh or two when reading label contents while the degraded/no longer readable VHS tapes were being disposed.
The ex-boyfriend supposedly moved on to Idaho or Montana.
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