Its funny, cassette nostalgia seems pretty absurd for anyone like me who was around during that era. I understand Vinyl nostalgia because they have the nice ar

Its funny, cassette nostalgia seems pretty absurd for anyone like me who was around during that era. I understand Vinyl nostalgia because they have the nice artwork and they were typically better mastered than equivalent CDs, but cassettes only reason for living was the fact they were relatively cheap at the time, compact, could record onto them, and there were portable walkman and car players. The sound quality was always relatively average even with the best decks like the dragon, more so with pre-recorded media that was often dubbed at high speed. CD-R drive and disk prices started to drop massively by around 1995, the real adoption tipping point occurred when blank discs started to cost less than stamped music discs, then really took off late 90s once computers became fast enough to avoid buffer underruns which was the bugbear in earlier times. I actually worked for a firm at the time where one of their offerings was to go onsite and archive data for big companies onto CD-R - their onsite IT often wasted a lot of media with buffer underruns because they were a bit clueless - I would go onsite, create an ISO image on harddisk, then use a Linux box with custom scripts to kill off every unneeded service and changed IRQ priority to burn the CD. Fun times :)