Need any "old" tape media?

[Tothwolf]

On Fri, 8 Dec 2006, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
> On Thursday 07 December 2006 19:11, Tothwolf wrote:
>
>> Won't degaussing DDS tapes wipe the factory written sync stuff and 
>> render the tapes worthless? (That was my experience with some years ago 
>> anyway...)
>
> It looks like you're right.  I'm glad that no one has requested any DDS 
> media. :)  It looks like I probably won't be able to offer it (at least 
> not at that low of a price) if I have to erase it with a drive rather 
> than just throw it on the degausser for a few seconds.

Got an autochanger? The older ones are pretty cheap too, it might pay for 
itself ;)

I don't think degaussing hurts 8mm (someone correct me if I'm wrong), 
though I have no idea what it does to the higher density DLT/SDLT stuff. I 
know it won't hurt the TK50/TK70 carts, though in the case of the TK70s, 
some drives might think they are TK50s until they get rewritten.

-Toth