Cassette Revolution: 1980s Tape Tech Is Still Making Noise in Our Digital World
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Cassette Revolution: 1980s Tape Tech Is Still Making Noise in Our Digital World
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#2I thought it'd be about software tapes, but I'm not surprised - vinyl records are even older and more fragile in many ways, and yet there's still plenty of interest in them, so why not cassette tape.
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#3Maybe OT, but i remember the "power of tape" when i was 10 in 1987, when an italian public radio broadcasted a full videogame (compressed by "turbo loader") every day and it was possible to record and play it on that beautiful commodore 64!
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#4Having grown up with tapes... I just don't understand the appeal. After obtaining one of the early cdrom based boomboxes for the first time, I was perfectly happy to replace my tapes with cd. Sure, there was zero buffering and even the slightest bump caused a skip... But the sound was great!
But hey, why not. :)
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#5Maybe OT, but i remember the "power of tape" when i was 10 in 1987, when an italian public radio broadcasted a full videogame (compressed by "turbo loader") every day and it was possible to record and play it on that beautiful commodore 64!
Okay, that sounds like it must have been pretty cool!
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#6I am glad to be done with cassette tapes. I never liked the hissiness, and the rewinding. I'm tired of car stereos eating the tapes. I'm sick of the 5 tapes in my car that got listened to over and over. My boxes of tapes went in the garbage 10 years ago.
My current car stereo I bought for $75 has only a USB port, and I stuck a 32G thumb drive in it with gawd knows how many tunes are on it. Mucho better. I enjoy inflicting disco music on anyone who dares to ride with me.
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#7I am glad to be done with cassette tapes. I never liked the hissiness, and the rewinding. I'm tired of car stereos eating the tapes. I'm sick of the 5 tapes in my car that got listened to over and over. My boxes of tapes went in the garbage 10 years ago. My current car stereo I bought for $75 has only a USB port, and I stuck a 32G thumb drive in it with gawd knows how many tunes are on it. Mucho better. I enjoy infli…
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#8I am glad to be done with cassette tapes. I never liked the hissiness, and the rewinding. I'm tired of car stereos eating the tapes. I'm sick of the 5 tapes in my car that got listened to over and over. My boxes of tapes went in the garbage 10 years ago. My current car stereo I bought for $75 has only a USB port, and I stuck a 32G thumb drive in it with gawd knows how many tunes are on it. Mucho better. I enjoy infli…
Yeap, "Weird Al" Yankovic and all gathered dust after CDs became readily available. I had a $400 Sony Walkman CD player (circa 1986) and a 1981 (!) German impression of The Doors - The Doors album (dull orange silkscreen printing) with the aluminum reflector material extending all the way to the edge of the disc.
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#9I make arrowheads for my DIY bow from bottle glass and stone because I want to know how it was like hunting thousands of years ago.
I see little children having curiosity about those "cassetes" thing, but it is a five minutes thing. I actually lived casettes and HATE them. I sold all my collection, burned the piece of furniture that held it in a night of San Juan fire.
Great memories (the fire and the party on the beach, it became useful after all).
Now with just Garageband and audacity I could do 100 times more that I could do with cassetes and hold thousands of times more recordings and songs without the nonsense analog noise in my pocket.
I couldn't help when I read PR like this to think that someone else needs to find "a bigger sucker" in order to get rid of their cassete junk in their parent's garage or something and make a profit out of it.
In 2015 CDs sell for as much as $15? Wow, it is not like people could connect to youtube, download any song of the world with youtuve-dl with better quality that cassete could ever dream about. And better talk about even more outdated tech like vinyl without talking about itunes or dozens of music web sites and social networks as alternatives for "music lovers" so the article does not sound as the piece of PR it is.
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#10Maybe OT, but i remember the "power of tape" when i was 10 in 1987, when an italian public radio broadcasted a full videogame (compressed by "turbo loader") every day and it was possible to record and play it on that beautiful commodore 64!
I seem to recall reading that the BBC did the same for the BBC Micro, although I can't find a reference now. Waiting half an hour for a game to load just to find the tape had got corrupted right near the end ("R Tape Loading Error" on the ZX Spectrum I grew up with) was one of the aspects I less fondly remember!