I met with some people at the Library of Congress today. They want the tapes, and they'll help me digitize them. Anything I don't digitize, they will. But, if they have to do it, it will likely take a few decades for them to get it done. (One person said something about an 80-year backlog...)

So the current plan is to cart all the thousand or so tapes down to the LoC sometime this summer, and then for me to check out a boxful at a time to digitize. Then I'll be looking for people to log the tapes, writing down what's on them.

Not at all certain yet that things will go according to this plan, but it's at least a plan.

Anyone have a high-end tape deck that can handle 10" reels that they can loan me for a couple of years? It would be even nicer if it had both half-track and quarter-track heads. Let me know...

Pat