A Fond Farewell to Audiotape

NPR | By Susan Stamberg

Published January 10, 2005 at 12:00 AM EST

It was hard to work with. It got tangled and crinkled and it was tough to figure out which end was which. Still, NPR's Susan Stamberg misses working with the old reel-to-reel tape. One of the last audiotape makers in the U.S. closed its doors last week.

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