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AllaN01Bear

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8. i mounted and un mounted tapes for a old bank that no longer exists .

Reply to sinkingfeeling (Reply #4)

Fri Jan 9, 2026, 04:40 PM

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id get ready tapes to be sent off to archives and re bring back in tapes that came back from archives . got cloobbered by one that fell off a rack and hit me on the head..

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