On high end equipment yes. However, there were mid range cassette mechanisms in which the soft touch was completely mechanical. Operation was...
Interesting to see that NICAM (a digital sound standard developed by the BBC) was used outside of Europe. Seeing that sent me down a NICAM rabbit...
I'm looking at the model's knuckles. I expect she was pleased to put that down once the photograph was taken. I was going to comment that she is...
Time for some 1980s computers. First "Business Computers". Not many people would be spending £800+ on a computer for home use back then. In 1985...
Nice Having just written about the first Panasonic HiFi VCR here...
Back to the Future ! In the early 1980s people were getting into video. Even Pop Acts [MEDIA] It was only on the second look that I realised the...
Regulars here will know that I love looking through old catalogues. When I saw this on eBay I decided to bid and got it for the rather high start...
Part of the problem is that all the alternatives like Yellow Pages disappeared years ago. Did you guys have "Exchange and Mart"? A weekly magazine...
A good video on the TRS80 [MEDIA] I can believe the 70% market share. Even then Commodore were probably beating Apple. I might as well add the...
Better late than never [MEDIA]
Am I supposed to know who these people (the four on the second poster) are (genuine question) ? Funnily the only person I knew who bought a...
The N1500 was an absolute breakthrough in Video Recording https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Cassette_Recording A machine so simple even a...
I'm guessing that There wasn't any difference between the tape types available back then There is a helical scan head under that large silver...
A case Sony was giving away back in 1992. Strange that it only applied to Walkmans under £50 although I guess the more expensive ones might have...
If they are going sticky you can bake them to re-stabilise them for a while. That is what they would do out of caution with precious master tapes....
More is less when it comes to radios. [ATTACH] The twelve band ICF-7601L on the left covers less frequencies than the cassette sized, two band...
Welcome Steve. I had two of these already so will admit to buying this purely because of the sticker. [ATTACH] In the 20th Century there was...
Possibly the most popular calculator of the late 1970s. Half the class at college had one of those in 1979. I jumped from...
I have posted lots of newspaper adverts from Woolworths. Now you can view the TV adverts featuring loads of cassettes. LPs, low end audio gear,...
Being one of Techmoan's patreons I know that his went horribly wrong, and started chewing tapes. What you see in the video was the best it ever...
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