Re: [Acma-l] Disposing of old tapes

From: Kevin Austin (kevin.austin@videotron.ca)
Date: Mon Aug 20 2007 - 08:04:41 EDT


Some are more than 50 years old, the youngest is 20, average is
25-30. How much is 600 feet of Scotch 207 going to sell for? There
are also cassettes, VHS and Beta. DATs, lots of those.

On eBay, you can buy "like new" DAT machine for $10.
http://cgi.ebay.ca/Tascam-DA-30-mkll-dat-machine-used-mint-condition_W0QQitemZ150152294962QQihZ005QQcategoryZ41480QQcmdZViewItem
plus $55 shipping.

Best

Kevin

At 12:07 PM +0100 8/20/07, Damian Stewart wrote:
>Kevin Austin wrote:
>>Would anyone know the environmentally correct way of getting rid of
>>old magnetic tapes? We have CD recycling bins with the battery and
>>cellphone recycling bins. Does anyone on WFAE have an answer. We
>>could be looking at upwards of 300 - 500 reels of tape and
>>cassettes.
>
>don't throw them out! people still use reel-to-reels to make and
>record music, myself being one of them.
>
>put them on Ebay.
>
>--
>damian stewart | +44 7854 493 796 | damian@frey.co.nz
>frey | live art with machines | http://www.frey.co.nz



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