Comment on If you're fond of restoring 30-year-old PCs, but then you see some old PC parts being obliterated by scrappers just to get small pitiful pinches of gold.

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MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

but tons of people still have plenty of VHS they want to see so they still get used

They still have usable data on them? They were magnetic and one weak point was cross-magnetizitation on the reel, causing ghost images. What was that defect called again? And the magnetizitation holds 30 years otherwise?

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