Cassettes, cheap!
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CamelCamelCamel.
I have a recorder that I use from time to time for music, and and ever more sporadically, use to "colour" my music making. ie: record stuff from computer onto tape, then record it back into the computer giving it a slight cassette-y sound. Just a bit of fun.
Unirononically…so chrome then?
This gives me Eminem/Dido vibes.
I'm amazed there's enough demand to manufacture tapes still!
Someone's been cleaning out the warehouse
Military surplus sellout? They are good for after nukes wipe out internet
Well I suspect being magnetic they'll get erased. Unless you can find a valve tape deck that won't work….well unless you've fot a Faraday Cage to store them in.
Elon's internet will work, but I suspect like X, Humans won't be tolerated on it.
Do you all buy these as collector items, hoping for the value to increase in the future?
I have a hifi cassette player/recorder that I use for occasional listening .. it's kinda hipster I know, but it's just a bit of fun.
My grandmother bought a Corolla in 1986 that had a tape deck in it. She gave it to my mother, who drove it for decades and replaced the take deck with a new-fangled CD player head unit.
My mother gave it to my sister, who, in turn drove it for years before updating to something newer.
I grabbed it and have the car going through a minor resto so her son, presently 7, can have it when he old enough. He'll be the 4th generation of our family to drive it.
Anyway, I couldn't find a period correct Corolla tape player for it, so I bought another Corolla from the same year which had a tape player still installed and still works.
The plan is to swap it into the OG Corolla, along with changing out some other bits from what is now effectively now a donor car.
I've bought some blank tapes over the last few years but they're rare as and they're mostly a PITA to get. I've also sourced some cheap tape recording hardware and started collecting 80s+ tapes for him. They're getting hard to find too as most people have just chucked them out.
Also, I think the whole mix tape thing is something we should cherish - I get some people feel a playlist is the same thing, but, personally, that's like comparing cheap instant coffee with a well made coffee with the right grind and fresh roasted beans. Yeah, they both deliver caffeine and they're both coffee… But they're not the same.
Anyway, that's why I bought 5 packs.
No specials on floppy discs?
5.25" or no deal
Need them for my 486dx.
Time to upgrade to 3.5" drive. I have 486 too, lol
I have a dx4-100 in a cupboard somewhere. 100mhz of badass performance
The good old days - passive cooling FTW.
100MHz. You speed demon.
@xoom: Fun fact: They were actually 99MHz (3 x 33MHz), but calling it DX4-100 was better from a marketing perspective.
Also DX2 had a 2x clock multiplier, but DX4 had a 3x one (although the name implies 4x).
@bio: Damn, I've been fooled all those years…
Ah well, it was still a pretty damn good upgrade from my 1988 286 (10MHz on Turbo, yeah baby!!!), not to forget a Quantum Fireball 1080MB instead of a 20MB HDD with Stacker…
@bio: The DX4-100, was also typically faster than the more expensive Pentium 66’s. So was the best value chip at the time.
My dx came with 5.25, 3.5 and hdd. Later I had it pimped/riced to an CDROM and LS120.
Time to fish out my good ol radio with the cassette player on the front, may need to fashion a makeshift antenna now though
Thats what metal coat hangers are for
My grandad used to have a bunch of these. Threw them out when he went into a home.
Hope you didn't throw out your grandmother too!
What are these ?
If you know what these are U R 90.
dad, …
good son
wo-ho-ho! did 90s call? but couldn't leave a message? XD I had a few of those, to record songs off radio. oh the strange, irretrievable days
bonus points to those who remember how to rewind them quickly using a pencil lol
"bonus points to those who remember how to rewind them quickly using a pencil lol" memory unlocked. Also wasn't that common knowledge?
The uninitiated would turn them by twisting the pencil. Like manually sharpening a pencil. Kind of awkward. The trick was to spin the tape around the pencil.
True mad lads would put the pencil in a drill chuck…
It's weird seeing vinyl and now cassettes making a comeback.
I only wish the minidisc format took off. That was pretty cool!
I had a player back in the day
I had a recordable one.
yeah mine was recorder too, SONY
What is it?
Are you posting this to flash the boomers?
and choke the gen-z
2 birds 1 stone.
they still make/sell these things? I might buy one just for LOLz/nostalgia
These will make a perfect Christmas gift for a very special person in my life
What are cassettes?
Are you over 18, this is adult thread from the naughties
Hahaha this is so cool! Never thought I'd see a deal for this on here👍
Surprised nobody mentioned backmasking.
That's so 1980's U.S. evangelical dude….
Ordered. I still use cassettes in my as-new Lexus RX to pump out 2000s Beats.
MB/GB in the title please.
Data Capacity in MB≈2,967.77MB
Ozback to the 80's
Can I use these with my Stem player?
Hold the play button lightly and all your music are sung by the chipmunks…😉
Make sure you press the DD button on your cassette player for even more hiss.
Oh ghez. I remember I had boxes for these, BNIB (Made in Japan) couldn't even give them away on eBay. Went out with the trash.
Also had old DDS tapes, couldn't even get 10cents, now they are selling for crazy amounts.
Crazy world. Next MD players and then iRiver MP3 players….
I'll stick to firehawk52 ;-)
they are selling for crazy amounts.
Really? I've got a box of them somewhere.
Some QICs as well.
Check eBay. OK, not crazy amounts, but the drives are worth a bit. I chucked quite a few away in the early 2000's.
I can understand the reasons why. As a tape user myself I had a quite a few drives fail in the last few years, all approaching 15-20 y/o. Just failing with random faults, not being detected, poor writes. I can restore the data and backup to a later spec, but very time consuming and with a new spec comes new write speeds which the storage system may not be able to reach (HDD vs SSD), meaning you now need to up your drives to SSD or have some kind of temp SSD for backups; and don't think 2TB and you are OK, no, think 8TB, then you got to move it to SSD, then move it back to a standard HDD tier……Or can get 'new-old' drives, which is what I did, and I had to pay for that, because drives are falling, they don't make them anymore and people have media they want to use, or at least restore from if they only had one drive.
If anyone ever says tape is cheap storage per/TB, they haven’t used tape long enough.
I used to record in Dolby, but play back with it off as I liked the brighter sound.
duuude, iRiver. Catch the digital flow. I still have my H320, could never throw that baby out.
Nice one OP.
Im in the middle of restoring my old panasonic rx-dt680 boombox, these will be a nice stroll down memory lane when im done!
Is this a prime deal? Amazon wants me to pay $13 postage.
Floppy disks aren't made anymore so it's good to see that tape factories still exist.
Oh gosh I want to buy these just because.
Im still hoarding a box of TDK SA-X90 Type II chromes somewhere and rocking my Denon DRM710 3-head deck with manual bias control.
Music is just not the same without some hiss - it comforts me.
Any deals on cassette head cleaners?
Just use some iso and a q-tip. :)
I recently found a full brown vinyl cassette carry case (holds 24 cassettes ) durring hard rubbish collection. It was a bag of 3.5" floppy discs ~100.
Wow. This reminds me of the tape trading I used to do back in the day. I used to buy blank Maxwell Golds or TDKs (only the highest grade) in bulk from the distributor and copy live concerts and send them round the world to other tape traders. I still remember that blank tape smell!
oh… young kids will be like .. what is that?
I was just watching 'For All Mankind' so feel like I am now in an alternate timeline of my own by seeing cassettes on Ozbargain in 2023!
Which Sony Walkman do you recommend for use with this crap ?
Just curious why anyone would need these in 2023? Kinda cool though
Kinda cool though
Ding ding ding. Tell em what he has won Bob?
Back to the 80s. I bought so many boxes of TDK AD90 and the occasion TDK SAX. Still have 100s of them.
Really wierd seeing these resurface back in 2023
Frigging awesome thanks!
You really want Chromium Dioxide or Metal tapes for the best quality.
Just randomly found this: It became clear in recent times that true chrome dioxide tape does not age well.
Any deals on the MRS (Manual Rewind System) ?
https://www.amazon.com.au/BIC-Cristal-Smooth-Medium-24-Count…
Can these play spotify?
2010 Lexus SC430 has the honours of last car to have cassette player
Wow - surprisingly recent. I wonder which car was the last to have an 8 track?
Of course even earlier you could get a record player for your car!
https://www.lelandwest.com/blog/listing.asp?2022/3/the-histo…
What for?