JessamynFeb 3

Boston area old tech people: my partner has two 8-track cassettes that he'd like to listen to and/or see if he can digitize. We're looking for a place or person who has an eight track player locallish to him, optimally.

This is a one-time thing, we do not want to buy a player. We might pay for a digitizing service.

Ideas or leads? Harvard's library system does not have what we need, amazingly.

For the youth: these things...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8-track_cartridge

8-track cartridge - Wikipedia

Show threadkFeb 3

@jessamyn Eclipse video service at 2322 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge. it's across from Big Dig Records (who tbh might also be able to help you out if they can't)

the storefront says it's a real estate company but it's not anymore! you can see all sorts of cool and obsolete tech in their windows.

good luck :)

Show threadJessamynFeb 3
@xeroxerox My partner literally was watching a documentary movie about Mass Ave. (a street he ALSO LIVES ON but not in Cambridge) on Sunday. This looks like a good lead, thank you.
Show threadJeremy GFeb 4
@jessamyn
Seconding Eclipse. They were able to digitize some old tape cartridge things I had from my grandfather. Older than cassette or 8 track, apparently the ones I had digitized were used in radio stations for little audio stingers to put in the broadcasts in the 50s or so, I think. They spliced the magnetic tape inside together to run it all through a reel to reel to digitize them. 8 tracks seem like they'd be in their wheelhouse. Not cheap, but reasonable.
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Show threadJessamyn
@sokath @xeroxerox I got ahold of them and they say this is something they do! It's not cheap but it can happen. Thank you!
Feb 4 at 4:49pmWeb