Happy 50th birthday, Compact Cassette

 

Happy Birthday Compact Cassette (Tape)

 

Mix Tapes

 

 

Bias Settings, 

 

Lusting after a Nakamichi Dragon. 

 

But this was fun.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0MgJKx5Ay0

 

Walkmen.

 

Pencils.

 

Oh yeah, and this

 

 

How'd that work out.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3jkUhG68wY

 

Happy Birthday!

 

 

Any other memories?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I still have piles of tapes that I can't play anymore - including couple of albums that have been long out of print and never will be re-released.

One of my favorite memories is when I was on AOL via a 2400 baud modem....met a woman in FL who liked a lot of the same music I did. We ended up sending each other mix tapes, with hers having the obligatory heart over the "i" in mix. The songs were so-so but she was very sweet....and, I may still have that cassette somewhere. But in thinking, it may have been damaged during a basement flood several years back....

But anyway....happy birthday cassette. You were a huge part of my formative music years....

Oh, one more....a counselor at camp in 1978 stole my Kiss Alive tape! STILL working that one out!

I still keep a pile of recorded cassettes, even blank ones, Metal TDK were my favorites. A couple of working Walkman, and a Nakamichi deck. I haven't listened to a cassette in about 17-20 years, more or less what it took me to have a CD player in the car.

Favorite memories: my first metal bias cassette, getting a DBX player (wow, that noise floor and dynamic range!), and... Receiving an extremely used Donna Summer 's Greatest Hits cassette as a gift from my schizophrenic patient. ' It's my favorite tape! I listened to it every day for the last five years! ' Well don't you want to keep it then? ' That's OK, I got a new one'

Edited August 31, 201312 yr by jvlgato

i used to record concerts on a marantz portable tape recorder with dbx.  Also had a sony and a nakamichi at various times.  Still have a box of tapes that I was going to give to my kid at the appropriate time, but now I don't think he'll know what they even are.  I may have to buy a marantz recorder and put it in the box with them.

I still have a Tascam 122 in the rack, a Nakamichi Dragon in storage and a big collection of cassettes.