[GreenKeys] Lost in history ? How was paper tape oiled ? ...

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I never saw any 8-level tape that was oiled.  But regardless of that, I 
learned decades ago not to store anything with rubber bands.  Either it goes 
dry after a few year and falls apart, or it melts and becomes a gooy mess.  
Had I but known, I could have warned you about this three or four decades ago.

In a message dated 08/12/2015 22:16:33 PM Central Daylight Time, 
chrise at pobox.com writes: 
> whatever the "oil" is, it eats rubber.  I have a large number of tapes 
> for Altair 680 that were stored with a rubber band around them to keep them 
> rolled up and in every case, the rubber band has melted into the tape and 
> made a hell of a mess of it. Most of these tapes won't feed through the M33's 
> reader now. One of them is an _unopened_ copy of Microsoft BASIC for the 
> 680 which sadly now is only a gooy mess inside a small plastic bag.
> 
> Chris N0JCF
> 

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