Demise of the digital age? Between tape mold and laser rot, nothing is safe from decay

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August 29, 2008

In Britain, media have been reporting a strange mold affecting audiotape and videotape. Much magnetic tape has already been destroyed by the dustlike substance, and many museums and archives may not know it yet, as they have not opened their boxes of old cassettes for years. The mold is so hardy that it spreads easily, so if you touch one contaminated tape and then handle another, you are likely to infect it, too.

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