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Posted by NunYa Bidness on 12/10/05 16:30
On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 00:15:45 -0500, Derek Janssen
<djanss@nospam.charter.net> Gave us:
>Justin wrote:
>
>>>But thats not quite true, stores still sell cassettes, both prerecorded
>>>(rare but out there) and blanks. CD sure pacified cassette but it didn't
>>>totally kill it. Now 8-track would be dead, can't buy prerecorded or blanks
>>>outside a garage sale, no ones makes them to my knowledge. Cassette is
>>>still made/sold by several manufactures including Memorex.
>
>And are still used for home recording, personal notes, answering
>machines, etc.
>Now, compare to:
>
>> 8 track didn't make the inroads tape did.
>
>8-track had the two classic fatal symptoms:
>
>A) It was pre-recorded media only (oh, sure, you could probably *get* a
>recorder, if you wanted to buy the hardware that nobody else was
>buying), and
There were plenty of recorders around. Even the cheapo makers like
"SoundDesign" <sp> offered them.
>B) It was technically a mess. (Always used to have that bleed-through
>on the cheap players, with two tracks playing at once...)
>
>...It had exactly ONE application-use for the consumer, and didn't
>impress us at that. That's how neat-o technologies die.
It was technically a mess, but it was the method of spooling that
caused it. It was a total failure from a mechanical POV. The tapes
stretched as they were subjected to excessive pulls from the capstan
to get it to feed. It would bind up completely. It had problems with
weather changes. A total failure. Cross talk usually meant a very
cheap player, with a shitty head, and a poor factory alignment.
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