[Yo-Yo]

Good luck keeping a 50 year old B&W 2" Quad machine running for the next 20 years. Even if you do, good luck keeping a 70 year old magnetic tape from shedding all of it's oxide as you attempt to play it back.

Nowadays, you can extract the information from an LP using nothing but a laser, so it may be possible in the future to have an equally non-contact method of recovering the magnetic information pattern from tape, then process it digitally. But keeping the original machines to read the stuff is not feasable.

[holden]

I hear you, but since, for example, many wouldn't have anticipated the laser-reading of LPs, just because the reader can't be feasibly maintained doesn't mean the medium of an otherwise valuable original should be junked or allowed to be neglected.

HF