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A Fond Farewell to Audiotape

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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Nationally renowned broadcast journalist Susan Stamberg is a special correspondent for NPR.
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