Here’s why “baking” damaged reel-to-reel tapes renders them playable again - Ars Technica

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Jun 18, 2025, 2:48:40 PMJun 18

to Lisp Core

Since we were talking about baking the QIC tapes today:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/04/the-chemistry-of-why-baking-degraded-reel-to-reel-tapes-can-reverse-damage/

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Jun 18, 2025, 3:01:15 PMJun 18

to Nick Briggs, Lisp Core

"Sticky shed syndrome" is the name I was grasping for.

Herb

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