Z! and Susan, Ditto your comments re bombproof Panasonics. They do seem like an anachronism in this digital age but something can be said for the reliability of tried-and-true tape and relays, although I have to chuckle at the way my wayward machine slowly clicks it's way across the desk. Susan, you mentioned that you replaced the message tape every 1 or 2 years. I wonder if you really need to, as long as the speech quality is okay. My 10-year-old machine still sounds fine with its original tape which, admittedly, is now running on the "B" side. If your sound quality is getting poor, you might try cleaning the heads with alcohol and cotton swabs. The flip side, it occurs to me, is also a way you can save a message when there isn't a replacement tape handy. Z!, Thanks for the new (to me) wrinkles about what you can do with message tapes. Tom -- Thomas A. Cole RPT Santa Cruz, CA
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