Posted by Phat Bytestard on 07/26/06 03:56

On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 08:23:18 -0700, WinField <doghouse@operamail.com>
Gave us:

>You were doing well until your silly observation ...
>
>Lostcub@la_la_land.com wrote:
>
> {{ snip-snip }}
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>> PS: Cassette did NOT kill the LP, CD did. It killed the 8-Track only because
>> no one knew how to re align the heads after cleaning, which caused the cross
>> talk. Hint, it was a little screw at the bottom of the player.
>
>
>Cassette format was a small marvel reel-to-reel.

It may have actually had roots in data storage. I have (had)
several cassette format data storage tapes that worked in a rat shack
"computer". Even though a consumer product, it was perfect for data
as well at the time.

>8-track was a gangly, LOOP-y format campared to the cassette. It was a DOG!

It was big. The ONLY "advantage" (if one wants to call it that) it
had was a slightly quicker traverse across the tracks of an album, and
no turning the tape over (pre-auto-reverse).

>Almost 105 billion people knew how to re_align the 8-track heads, though
>no one could get it perfect.

105 billion eh?

Not true. Mine were perfect, and I even had a test/cal tape.

>With hi-performance tape formulations, the cassette made 8-track look
>like a SICK PUPPY.

That was because manufacturers had already rang the death knell bell
for 8-track. It could have kept up just fine. The problem with
8-track was that the inner loops would tighten up. With a slightly
better design, they could have fixed it, but it had already taken a
dump at the consumer level.

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