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Re: "Just exploring going back to cassette tapes as a useful..."
@blah_blah_blah nice write up there. I can't refute most of what you said but my take is this: I like the nostalgia factor - it makes me feel good - and I prefer physical media, be it books or cassettes or whatever. I'm an out of sight out of mind person, and when terabytes of music sit on a HD, it just feels...like it's too much and forgettable. When I look at my DVDs that I hand picked, it's for a reason, and usually isn't disposable and forgettable in the sea of digits. Physical media, to me, feels like it has an assigned purpose that I connect with.
May 17 · 8 weeks ago
heh, i was using tape casettes for storing my tinkering, my programs on them, as a child. whenever i would get some money, i would buy a tape casette to have some storage space.
here's some restored from the tape program, actually armenian font for oric/pravetz-8d:
— norayr.am/retrocomputing/Oric/old/arm/paruyk.gmi
there are bulgarian games i have transferred from my old tapes:
— norayr.am/retrocomputing/Oric/old/homepage/bulgarian_games.gmi
i still have the original casette tapes.
for audio, i was astonished when i saw a cd reader drive. i think it is incredibly cool. now i tend to buy cds for the music i like. though i don't use a cd player usually, i rip them.
📡 Queen_City_Nerd [OP] · May 17 at 14:12:
@norayr I grew up doing the same. TI-99 used a tape deck for the storage medium. I do keep some blacnk CD's around but I'm more inclined towards USB drives or CD when it comes to computer now. I haven't bought a CD for music in ages, and apart from a few older computers don't have a CD player anymore. It was THE thing when I lived in Prague in 2000. Having a Diskman clone on the trams made the city even more enjoyable. Then again back then you could tell an American on a tram because our cell phones didn't largly have ringtone support. If you heard a Nokia ring instead of U2's All that You Can't Leave Behind odds were good!
Just exploring going back to cassette tapes as a useful medium. Never thought I'd be doing that having been at the tail end of the 8-track till today's streaming but I want to own my music again and I like the ease of use and low expense of it. Anyone else looked back at the cassette?
💬 Queen_City_Nerd · 10 comments · 1 like · May 16 · 8 weeks ago