3 Aug
2013
3 Aug
'13
3:40 p.m.
Must be nice picking up free Nakamichi tape decks locally. I was tempted
back in my car stereo days of the late 80's early 90's to get a Nakamichi
tape deck for the car (boy were they expensive). Most of my music tape
collection sounds kind of crappy these days except for the mix tapes I made
on expensive metal tapes using my Technics tape deck (still have the deck
but it needs new belts). Dolby C, metal tapes, and HXpro dynamic adjustment
to avoid clipping plus being able to easily set the level meters to the
highest point made for some decent music tapes. I think unused Metal
cassettes are still pricey on ebay.
-----Original Message-----
From: Chuck Guzis
Sent: Saturday, August 03, 2013 6:08 PM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: 16kb variant of the IBM 5150
On 08/02/2013 09:13 AM, Peter Corlett wrote:
You'd have to be pretty strange -- even stranger
than us on cctalk :) --
to
want to keep a compact cassette recorder, except if you've still got media
that
hasn't yet been copied to a more reliable format. I think I may still have
a
tape recorder, but it's going into the bin when I find it. Utterly hateful
things, even when they were contemporary.
You'd be surprised. Cassettes are still being produced, and, at least
according to some in the industry are more popular than ever.
See, for example:
http://nationalaudiocompany.com/
and the squib in the August 12, 2013 issue of Time magazine, on page 56
notes that the still-popular media format is now 50 years old--like TTL ICs.
The interesting thing is that I've picked up Nakamichi cassette decks
(definitely not cheap) for nothing via the loca Freecycle.
--Chuck