“Why I Quit #Streaming And Got Back Into #Cassettes”

When I came to Tokyo, a friend took me to a store that sold cheap portable cassette players, and I knew it wouldn’t be a huge leap to take my music listening fully offline. The #walkman I bought is unbranded and has a transparent plastic shell, allowing you to watch all the little mechanical gears turning inside as the tape spools around the wheels and past the playheads. It was one of the easiest purchasing decisions I’ve made in recent memory: After years of psychic damage from social media and other phone-based #distractions, I was ready to once again have a dedicated device that does nothing but play music.

#DataCassette / #music / #offline <https://404media.co/why-i-quit-streaming-and-got-back-into-cassettes/>

How’s your day going? Mine is cleaning the dissolved remains of the drive and counter belts of this old tape recorder and finding replacements. 😅

I am covered in the black goo, send help!!!

#Retro #RetroTech #TapeRecorder #Cassette #CassetteRecorder #DataCassette #OldComputers #ComputoneCRC1001

a8cas-convert is often great, but I'm finding #Altirra does a more reliable job of successfully turning (ancient) eight-bit data tape audio into a successfully loaded program.

Looks like a8cas-convert has been effectively abandoned since 2015: https://a8cas.sourceforge.net/news.html

#Atari800 #Atari8bit #DataCassette #Atari410 #BinaryDump #NoFilesystem

Trying to recover more programs from #cassette tapes recorded with the #Atari #program #recorder in the early 1980s. Type-a-tune doesn't seem to be recoverable. Look at that drop-out! #a8cas-convert can't turn the audio into a valid CAS file either.

Just 12 milliseconds of data are missing, but that makes this #program unrecoverable.

I learned to #CSAVE a program twice in succession after getting caught out like this a few times.

#retrocomputing #datacassette #nofilesystem #binarydump

What have you used #cassette #tapes for?
— Recording / Playback of #music?
— Computer #data such as #games or other programmes / #files?
— Something else I didn't think/know of?

Or do you have no idea what a #cassetteTape is?

#poll #polls #dataCassette #retroGaming #retroComputers #audio #MusicCassette #CompactCassette