Posted AT 2:51 AM EDT on 07/08/08
The scourge of tape mould and laser rot
In Britain, media have been reporting a strange mould affecting audiotape and videotape. Thousands of kilometres of magnetic tape have already been destroyed by the dust-like substance, and many museums and archives may not know it yet, as they have not opened their boxes of old cassettes for years. The mould 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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