25 Nov
2019
25 Nov
'19
10:53 a.m.
On Sun, 24 Nov 2019, Jon Steinhart wrote:
The thing that's kept me from getting these out
of my basement is that
I'd prefer to erase them first, just in case. Does anybody have
experience with a decent bulk tape eraser?
I had a bunch of tapes (some strange type for an early "home computer"
belonging to my deceased father) that my brother wanted to bulk-erase, as
they contained my father's business details etc.
Now, it transpired that one of my clients at the time happened to be a
certain department of the police, that specialised in, err, phone-tapping
in real time i.e. a known drug-dealer would use the phone, an alarm would
go off, and away went the tape recorders (both cassette and mag) along
with humans listening in. I'm afraid that I can't say much more than
that...
Anyway, into their bulk eraser went the tapes, and out came blanks. This
was confirmed when said brother decided to read a tape, and found that he
couldn't :-)
So, if you happen to know someone in that area...
-- Dave