As an 8-bit hobbyist, I have tons and tons of cassette tapes containing all kinds of wild and woolly things. Over the 40 years since I started this hobby I've

As an 8-bit hobbyist, I have tons and tons of cassette tapes containing all kinds of wild and woolly things. Over the 40 years since I started this hobby I've collected commercial titles, as well as a large number of "personal archives" type cassettes from various owners/users. This is often very rewarding and very, very fun to discover, buried deep in the middle of some tape, someones' first code projects. Perhaps its a modified version of a BASIC game they've typed in, perhaps its some machine code that doesn't quite work, maybe its a missive typed to a long lost love using an ancient text editor nobody knows anything about, any more. I have over 40 machines in my retro- collection, and have exhibited quite a few of them. In one case, 40,000+ visitors in Vienna were introduced to the Oric Atmos, ZX Spectrum, and Amstrad CPC6128, each outfitted with modern storage in the form of a USB drive where the floppy disk should be. On occasion I'd get some donations to my collection - a box of cassettes someone found in the attic, and no idea what to do with them. I have a cassette player/recorder[1], in the style of the old 80's 'brick' design, which also has a USB port so that things can be recorded direct to .WAV files. This simple tool has been very effective in recovering stuff from cassette tape. Its kind of surprising how many folks still have boxes and boxes of cassettes out there, and no way to transfer things .. I've considered offering a service to do it and may set it up as a side gig, whenever I get my own retro computing museum officially started .. [1] - similar to this: https://www.amazon.com/Gracioso-Converter-Cassettes-Headphone-Retractable/dp/B0D62BZRRR https://www.amazon.com/Gracioso-Converter-Cassettes-Headphon...