Cassette Tape Storage
Comments focus on the historical use of audio cassette tapes for computer data storage, backups, and music recording like mix tapes, with nostalgia, comebacks, and comparisons to other retro media.
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They did it for cassette tapes, so it should be possible.
One comment talks about "rewinding cassette tapes".
And saving them to cassettes...
Old is remembering when storage was audiocassettes.
Audio cassette can sometimes be good if you want to make recordings.
Oh man! The nostalgic feeling seeing these photos give me cannot be put into words, esp. for those who haven’t used tapes. There were stores in my country where you would give a list of songs you wanted, select the quality of the cassette tape, and in 3-4 days would get the recordings, a primitive Spotify list. I also had a combination radio/cassette player deck on which, whenever a good song on the radio came up, I would record it, to have my own mix tapes.Recently I found, to my amazem
People used to regularly create mix tapes from radio broadcasts.
Go old school and use a tape, it should work just as well.
If you want the cassette experience without the massive downsides of cassettes, pick up an old Minidisc recorder. Physical media that are nearly infinitely re-recordable (unused ones are expensive but used ones from Japan are not) and nearly indestructible. The NetMD ones have been bid up in price because of transfer speed but older ones that only do real-time transfers are not hideously expensive.
Cassettes are making a comeback too