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Cassettes were perfect for 8 bit micros. They were a bit slow, but cheap and somewhat reliable. Ten year old me bought a metre of stereo cable and two male aud
by forinti 3y ago
Cassettes were perfect for 8 bit micros. They were a bit slow, but cheap and somewhat reliable.
Ten year old me bought a metre of stereo cable and two male audio jacks so I could copy tapes using my dad's 3-in-1 and my tape player.
You could get 7-minutes-a-side tapes that allowed one game on each side.
- tyingq 3y agoIt was also nice for cars at the time. There were 8-track car head units, but those were very bulky and only held ~80 minutes of audio.
- TacticalCoder 3y ago> Cassettes were perfect for 8 bit micros. My Commodore had a cassette reader/writer but I never managed to copy a cassette. I was only a kid and tried hard to copy cassettes at my best friend's place (his father had a back then insane Nakamichi stereo rack) but I never succeeded. Then I discovered 5"1/4 floppy disks and never looked back!
- hakfoo 3y agoI've heard the Commodore mechanism has a signal processing model that's pretty different from an audio deck, even if the tape transport and heads are comparable. I suspect this is a combination of "saving a nickel" and "the characteristics best for nuanced analog audio are irrelevant or worse for data"