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by da02 61 days ago
Did he come from an old-money wealthy family? How did he find the time and money to be an unofficial cultural archivist?
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He just really, really, really committed himself.
“I was using, at times, pretty lackluster equipment, simply because I had no money to buy anything better,” he said. Later, he moved on to digital audio tape, or DAT, and, as technology progressed, to solid-state digital recorders."