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The last audio cassette factory [video]

• 11thEarlOfMar 11y ago
  My first guess was 'ho-hum, somewhere in the bowels of China and who cares'. Then I noticed the Vietnamese media name and thought, 'oh, it's in Vietnam. A little more interesting.' But it's in Springfield Missouri. What? They have Revox(!) components. The label printer is affixed with duct tape. They have equipment from 1938. It's fully depreciated :-)
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• Isofarro 11y ago
  I bought a bunch of cassette tapes earlier this year from Tapeline (tapeline.info). Based in Stockport, Cheshire, UK. Bought both custom-length blank cassettes (for replacing broken ZX Spectrum game cassette tapes), and cassette boxes (single and jewel case).
  • dct 11y ago
    The police still use them a lot: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20556330 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20556330
• hga 11y ago
  Web version/framing of this: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-09-01/this-company-is-still-making-audio-cassettes-and-sales-are-better-than-ever http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-09-01/this-compa... Rather cool, we do all sorts of interesting things in flyover country, Springfield, MO is 70 miles east of where I was born, raised, and have retired to.
• Torgo 11y ago
  Did they intentionally add tape hiss to the video???
• yincrash 11y ago
  video removed