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Techmoan somewhat recently did a video on the 2xl, including breaking down the various tracks on the 8-track. https://youtu.be/amuRIydCoJk https://youtu.be/amu

Techmoan somewhat recently did a video on the 2xl, including breaking down the various tracks on the 8-track. https://youtu.be/amuRIydCoJk https://youtu.be/amuRIydCoJk

jgrahamc 4y ago
That’s cool. In the clip I posted I swear the initial sound effect is actually RTTY. Anyone ever try to decode it?
- lb1lf 4y ago
  I was thinking the same thing. I am not sure it is 45.45 baud w/170Hz shift (taken from memory) ham RTTY, but I figured I'd run it through a decoder once I got back inside the shack just to see if it is an Easter egg or just random...
  - jgrahamc 4y ago
    Let’s see which one of us gets there first!
  - jgrahamc 4y ago
    I don’t have much time to look deeper but around 3kHz there are two peaks 300Hz apart. Wouldn’t surprise me if there is a signal there and could be ASCII.
  - jgrahamc 4y ago
    https://blog.jgc.org/2022/10/the-hidden-code-inside-2-xls-space-age.html https://blog.jgc.org/2022/10/the-hidden-code-inside-2-xls-sp...
smcl 4y ago
One other thing I learned from Techmoan is that one of the few remaining companies making cassette playback mechanisms today is a company called "Tanashin" - and I only bring that up because that name is on a sticker in one of the photos inside this 2-XL in jgrahamc's post.
- mrob 4y ago
  According to https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-last-cassette-player-standing/ https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-last-cassette-pl... , Tanashin no longer makes tape mechanisms. The so-called "Tanashin" mechanisms found in modern products are actually Chinese mechanisms based on old Tanashin designs.
  - smcl 4y ago
    Ahhh very interesting! I had no idea
  - Aeolun 4y ago
    It looks like Tanashin is out of business now. At least their website returns a 401 and has for the past year or so (according to the internet archive). Last snapshot: https://web.archive.org/web/20210117133724/https://www.tanashin.co.jp/ https://web.archive.org/web/20210117133724/https://www.tanas...
- jccalhoun 4y ago
  Another youtuber, VWestlife, has more technical and has talked more about this. As another poster notes most of these are knockoffs and even the motors are knockoffs that go so far as to put the label of a more reputable company on them.

Techmoan somewhat recently did a video on the 2xl, including breaking down the various tracks on the 8-track. https://youtu.be/amuRIydCoJk https://youtu.be/amuRIydCoJk

jgrahamc 4y ago

That’s cool. In the clip I posted I swear the initial sound effect is actually RTTY. Anyone ever try to decode it?

lb1lf 4y ago
I was thinking the same thing. I am not sure it is 45.45 baud w/170Hz shift (taken from memory) ham RTTY, but I figured I'd run it through a decoder once I got back inside the shack just to see if it is an Easter egg or just random...
- jgrahamc 4y ago
  Let’s see which one of us gets there first!
- jgrahamc 4y ago
  I don’t have much time to look deeper but around 3kHz there are two peaks 300Hz apart. Wouldn’t surprise me if there is a signal there and could be ASCII.
- jgrahamc 4y ago
  https://blog.jgc.org/2022/10/the-hidden-code-inside-2-xls-space-age.html https://blog.jgc.org/2022/10/the-hidden-code-inside-2-xls-sp...

smcl 4y ago

One other thing I learned from Techmoan is that one of the few remaining companies making cassette playback mechanisms today is a company called "Tanashin" - and I only bring that up because that name is on a sticker in one of the photos inside this 2-XL in jgrahamc's post.

mrob 4y ago
According to https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-last-cassette-player-standing/ https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-last-cassette-pl... , Tanashin no longer makes tape mechanisms. The so-called "Tanashin" mechanisms found in modern products are actually Chinese mechanisms based on old Tanashin designs.
- smcl 4y ago
  Ahhh very interesting! I had no idea
- Aeolun 4y ago
  It looks like Tanashin is out of business now. At least their website returns a 401 and has for the past year or so (according to the internet archive). Last snapshot: https://web.archive.org/web/20210117133724/https://www.tanashin.co.jp/ https://web.archive.org/web/20210117133724/https://www.tanas...
jccalhoun 4y ago
Another youtuber, VWestlife, has more technical and has talked more about this. As another poster notes most of these are knockoffs and even the motors are knockoffs that go so far as to put the label of a more reputable company on them.