Uploaded December 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Jennifer has a very odd format magnetic tape. She thinks it may have her voice and that of her beloved late father on it, recorded in1965, when she was 4 years old. I know what it is, it's a 4" IBM Magnabelt! It should fit in my ailing IBM Executary 214. Can we recover Jennifer's childhood recording? That would be the hell of a nice Christmas present.

Here is the raw recovered sound file: drive.google.com/file/d/11bGtY6hmVwdQlUbCX245M4cNwktJTm1G/view?usp=share_link
Viewer Carlos N., a professional sound editor from Portugal, did post processing, removing flutter, hum, noise and other blemishes. Here is the final result:
drive.google.com/file/d/1icy3YqlQNlyqa0AeY0wlP_5LzTv1vW52/view?usp=share_link


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