Mastodawn

Inspired by a CD burning indirect age verification poll I saw this morning let's push things a little further back with a poll about cassette tape.

I don't know what a cassette tape is

I do know what a cassette tape is

21.3%

I've listened to music on cassette tape

25%

I've recorded music to cassette tape

26.1%

I've loaded software from cassette tape

15.8%

I've written software to cassette tape

10.8%

Poll ended at Mar 26 at 3:17am.

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Anthony Horton 6d ago

To clarify, I'm specifically asking about analogue Compact Cassette audio tape here. DAT/DSS, etc., don't count.

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Anthony Horton 5d ago

This nostalgic train of thought promoted me to hunt down samples of the BBC Micro Model B's distinctive "boop beep" startup sound.

It has now replaced the ICQ message notification sound as the default notification on my phone.

I found it here: https://jonripley.com/8bit/Sounds/

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Philip Kendall 5d ago

@spacelizard fun fact: the first half of the "boop beep" is non-deterministic and caused by activating the sound chip with junk in its registers. It took a long time for emulators to get it sounding right.

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Anthony Horton

@pak21 Huh. That would explain why the boop doesn't sound like a single pure tone, unlike the beep that follows it.

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Philip Kendall 5d ago

@spacelizard precisely that :)