Tape Cassettes??

Also known as "Musicassettes' or 'Compact Cassettes';It was only yesterday we smirked when we listened to them in preference to Vinyl L.P.s which were bulkier,prone to surface scratches & more costly.
Technology has moved on in leaps & bounds & left the poor 'Tape Cassettes' to the trash-can of history.Or do you still use them???.....
Developed by 'Philips' in Holland;they were mass marketed around 1966.
I have a selection of 1965-1966 musicassettes & blank C.60 cassettes in their original boxes & I'm waiting for the day when these become antique collector's items!.

What were your favourite cassettes?,do you still have them?.


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Here's an original scan that I made from an old copy of 'The ABC Film Review' of February 1967 - page 5 featured an advert for Philips Musicassettes:








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I miss them I really do. I miss the times.

 

I don't really know where it is... but I have a good 200 cassettes with a bunch of heavy metal and Russian rock on them somewhere.

 

I still have cassettes lol..even have the original madonna etc..even some disco lol

 

cassetes rock. durable. i hate cd. you travel yer cd gonna get fuckt bumpin about in yer gear. fucking assholes sell disposable easy brake shit so you gotta buy more. whoever invented cd should be facestabbed. sound quality is minorly improved n fer storage folks still buy a mostly empty disc.conspiracy.GRR!

 

the drive belt on my last cassette player, the one in the cheep boom box i use to listen to the radio in the bedroom with, finaly stretched and gave out. still intend to get a component dubbing deck one of these days if and when i get arround to it. have some 30 or more hours taped off the air of thistle and shamrock, and hearts of space.

mostly i listen to the music files on my hard drive now.

what i really miss, i use to have, waaay back in the early 70s, an 8-track deck i could record with, and a sperate playback deck that through the cheepie mixer i had built with pia modules i was able to overdub. in the late 70s through well into the 80s i used to do that with cassette.

i like both. and everything else it's possible to be creative with.

i do have a few tapes i bought. claned, no blue thing, an hos sampler i wore out, enya, jamaca bobsled team soundtrack, buncha other odds and ends, but mostly otherwise stuff i grabbed off the air. off of very alternative kinds of programing. none of that mainstream clearchannel crap.

back in 8-trak/PRE-cassette days, i did buy more music, moody blues, jefferson airplaine, jethro tull, switched on back, emerson lake and palmer, ...

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I'm actualy going to go out and buy a walkman cassette/radio this week and tape my cds.

I've so had enough of scratching the things, let ALONE the size of the things. "Compact Discs" ? Are you kidding me? Since WHEN was a cd smaller than a cassette?

If they were the size of an old penny I'd buy the appropriate portable device for them. Since they are actualy GOD DAMN HUGE I'll stick to cassette thanks.

That said though, I'll never totally bash modern technology. I mean, my juke box is one of my most favourite things.

 

this mention of form factor reminds me of something, ok the one thing about cassettes over 8-tracks is you could rewind them to a particular place to que them up, er back to what i was just thinking about form factor reminded me of. form factor and laser recording tecnology.

anybody remember the holographic transportable media memory cards in the origeonal star trek series? the idea, they were rectangular, about the size of a deck of playing cards or a pack of ciggarettes, only longer in the longwise direction? the first heulett packard programable calculators, as hurkey as some of the first personal computers, actualy used something of a similar form factor.

the idea was they worked something like the way cd's do now, except of course the media didn't spin or otherwise move, but rather the laser read/write head did, scaning in both x and y directions. the spinning cd uses a cheaper mechanism to build and as a guess that is why we have it instead. but the use of those kinds of laser memory removable media cards, would overcome several of the objections to cd's just mentioned. the drives would probably be about two to three times as expensive, but the media itself could well be that much cheeper as well. and with the built in bar/handle on one end and a shethlike case to carry them in, far safe and easier to handle and carry arround! i keep all my cd's in 'jewl' cases. i can't immagine expecting them to last worth a dam otherwise. i use them to back up my files on my hard drive. i've never used them as a music media as seems to have become dominant.

they were called compact discs because they were more compact then the origeonal laserdiscs that movies for a short time were distributed on. anybody remember those?

the name cd has a certain unfortunate ambiguity, the popularity of that one meaning of which having obscured the others. those innitials were first used back the late 50s to describe capacative discharge *electronic* ignition systems in automobiles. they also concurrently refer to certificates of deposit, a somewhat rube goldberg financial scheme. in many ways not unlike the old savings bonds, that had begun as war bonds during wwII.

but anyway, yes the higher density of recording possible with laser tecnology is just fine, the suseptability of a large sensitive and largely unprotected surface like that is not, and of course, nearly doubling the price of a recording that has little or nothing more on it, that was available on cassette, on the pretence of higher sound quality and that more COULD be put on it, is, unequivicably, as mentioned, nothing other then a damnable con game. for which the recording industry fully deserves to be bypassed and sabotaged.

so buy your recorded music directly from band members at the booths they set up at music festivals instead of at record stores, or from the musician's own websited.

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I have almost all forms of media. I have a huge record collection, I have a crate full of 8-Tracks and a player, and I still listen to cassettes in my van. I use CDs, but I really don't buy that many new albums, since I can just download them off of my computer or borrow from someone else and rip it to my computer.

The old forms are coming back (with the exception of 8-Tracks. those suck). People want something tangable, rather than a cheap disposable disc that scratches up and breaks easily. Peope are buying more and more records. Radioshack has started selling turntables again. More people use cassettes since you can record up to two or three hours on them, compared to just 80 minutes on a CD.

 

Yeh I still have some cassettes back at home. Infact my cd player still has a casette player on it. Also I only replaced my cassette player on my car about a year ago. I feel nostalgic about these things...sometimes I wish everything could stay the same.

 

Right on!.That's why I collect out-dated media technology.Teriffic thread-I'm still digesting it all.
I have a collection of 8-track cartridge tapes but no collector will touch 'em.I'm stuck with a lot of junk that no one wants.On the flip side (pardon the pun) I've been buying thise things in junk shops for next to nothing.
The great advantage of Reel-to-reel Tape Recorders was that you could make 'backward tapes'.







-Commercial 8-Track Cartridge Tapes.

 

Sam: Dean, you've really got to update your cassette tape collection.


Dean: What do you mean?

Sam: Well first off, they're cassette tapes. And second: AC/DC, MotorHead, Black Sabbath. It's the greatest hits of mullet rock.

Dean: Well, two rules, Sam. First, the driver picks the music, and second, shotgun shuts his cakehole.

From the pilot episode of Supernatural.

 

Here's the actual words from the pilot episode of Supernatural where Sam talks about Dean's cassette tape collection.

Sam: I swear, man, you’ve gotta update your cassette tape collection.

Dean: Why?

Sam: Well, for one, they’re cassette tapes and two… Black Sabbath? Motorhead? Metallica? It’s the greatest hits of mullet rock.

Dean: House rules, Sammy. Driver picks the music, shotgun shuts his cakehole.

 

Cassette tapes are awesome because

a) they are alot harder to damage or break than CDs or MP3 players and
b) you can go to a specific PART of a song you like

I love old stuff, new technology is so fickle and breakable. The old stuff lasts soo much longer.

 

we have heaps. got all the oldies. sadly we mainly find them in opp shops now.

i used to love to get blank ones and tape them over the radio.
and to write down the lyrics id have to rewind and fastforward it constantly. good times.

 

we have heaps. got all the oldies. sadly we mainly find them in opp shops now.

i used to love to get blank ones and tape them over the radio.
and to write down the lyrics id have to rewind and fastforward it constantly. good times.

 

we have heaps. got all the oldies. sadly we mainly find them in opp shops now.

i used to love to get blank ones and tape them over the radio.
and to write down the lyrics id have to rewind and fastforward it constantly. good times.

 

oh shit. errr delete those two... sorry *blushes*

 

I agree with you & I STILL use my cassette tape recorder for taping off the radio & useful for taping C.D.s with C.D. copy control.

 

I'm still walking in the street with my old walkman, which works very well! I feel like I missed all those yesterdays!