I actually have more positive feelings about tape than optical media. It's probably because I used writable and rewritable CDs and DVDs a lot, and that kind of sucked. At least when you record a tape, you can be pretty sure it's good by the time you get to the end. With optical media, you could spend a lot of time writing it, only to find that for SOME FUCKING REASON it didn't work, and now you have a shiny coaster. If it wasn't rewritable, there were no second tries. With a tape, you could keep trying until the tape wore out or you got it right.