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Thread #27884   Message #343676
Posted By: Amos
19-Nov-00 - 08:06 PM
Thread Name: Need tech help
Subject: RE: Need tech help
You can feed analog out from reel-to-reel directly into a computer and the on-board DAC chips will convert to digital. I recommend that you choose the strategy of storing them 625 MB at a time on the computer and writing these to master CDs using the best quality CD-burner and CD SW you can find. Or possibly DVDs. But not just stored on hard disks. Reason being that unlike CDs, HD storage is magnetic only, while CD storage of bits is based on laser penetration of layers, or burned into a surface; either way, much less vulnerable to random gamma rays and passing cellphones. From the masters thus made you can assemble production sets of any combination of individual filesyou want to produce, including sets for keeping on-line using a RAID array of CD readers.

Just my $.02.

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