On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 04:45:05PM -0500, Jules Richardson wrote:
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Funny how those have all but disappeared too, though -
they were everywhere
at one point in time, but I've only seen a couple out here in the last four
years of rescuing interesting things from junk stores (one totally snafu, but
the other was quite a nice Wollensak one, with box, case, manual, mikes etc.)
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.
These days, you could trivially build a cable from $OLD_COMPUTER to a headset
cable and use a phone's memo-taking and music-playing functionality, and even
after it's been mangled by MP3 compression it should still be more reliable.
For the ZX Spectrum, we even have this rather handy iPhone application:
http://www.retrocollect.com/News/speccy-tape-load-games-onto-your-zx-spectr…