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normally way back then it was by glue.

• madaxe_again 4y ago
  That lovely gummy stuff that would roll off the glossy cover.
  • zabzonk 4y ago
    i would not say that it was lovely, but it generally came off without tearing. i suppose you could do potentially obscene things with it, once you got it off. not that i not do any such stuff, of course.
  • LBJsPNS 4y ago
    Also known as snot tape.
• jameshart 4y ago
  Really? My memory of early Your Sinclair covermount cassettes is definitely that they were stuck on with a strip of tape that usually stripped off some of the cassette label when it was torn off. The tapes weren't even in boxes - gluing them to the cover would have been a recipe for gumming up the reels.
  • zabzonk 4y ago
    I definitely remember a sort of rubbery glue. I never had a Spectrum, so maybe different mags did different things? But of course this all a very long time ago!