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Remember using these things?
>>55366811
Did you know a lot of bands these days put albums/EPs out on cassette tapes these days ?
>>55366811
I remember them getting jammed up in the tape deck and having to spend 20 minutes spinning the spool around with your finger.
>>55366811
I still do, they're great for the novelty, plus I found my old walkman recently.
I remember them sounding like shit because I had a copy of a copy of a copy.
>>55366827
Nostalgic faggots. Digital is the way to go, even though I like the "experience" of vinyl.
>>55366850
this gave me a huge wave of nostalgia
>>55366840
They sounded great with metal tape.
Some form of double diskettes?
>>55366840
>tfw lived in florida
>the 150 degree car interior temps wrecked your tapes
>they all went warbly as fuck when you played them
>>55366875
>that squeaking noise that you'd still hear no matter how loud you turned the volume up
>tfw dialup and aol
>tfw downloading the cookbook and phreaking txt files
>tfw you missed out on your chance to crush matchheads into a floppy disk and see if it'd do anything when the computer tried to read it
>>55366850
This was surprisingly soothing
I had a shitton of pirated cassettes, a local store sold them for a buck each
>using tapes for music
This is a tech board
who else old here
If you haven't owned one of this, then you've missed out, my dude.
>>55366951
40...
>>55366967
40... on 4chin...
When did it all go wrong for you, gramps?
>>55366917
>borrow games from friends/family/library etc.
>make 1:1 copies using blank cassettes on a double-deck hifi
Shit son, those were the days of easy "piracy"
>>55366981
Nothing is wrong. Married, 2 children, owning a house and have a good job with much free time that I can use to shitpost.
I was still using a walkman around 2001-2002. Being poor sucked.
>>55366952
Had one ,don't know where the f*** it is now
>>55366917
>>55366951
>>55366993
>>55367016
You know that your kids peep dat /gif/ board, don't you?
>>55366993
I miss the times
>>55366952
that was poor kids gameboy right there
i remember having one of those tetris machines, and one small monochrome machine with small cartridges to change games that even had a few decent ones
Always wanted one of these (pic related)
>>55367035
They are just 4yo. I don't think they peep on /gif/.
>>55367028
Nice one.
>>55367053
What's this?
>>55367035
In fact, they are peeping at Bubble Bobble
>>55366850
Why?
If you have a method of playing tapes, then you also have a method of rewinding tapes.
>>55367092
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_coupe
The Sam Coupe was an 8-bit computer that was released too late. It had impressive performance for an 8-bit machine but the 16-bit era was already in full swing and made it stillborn upon launch.
>>55367127
If the reel ever came out.
The pain when you forget to feed your pet before going to bed, and it dies in the middle of the night... :(
>>55367127
You do it while other cassette is playing, silly
>>55367127
Rewinding wastes battery, if we're talking about battery-operated devices. You also assume that a rewinding mechanism never breaks.
I use a bluetooth cassette adapter to play music from my phone, in my car. Yes, this is a thing.
>>55366811
>Remember
I still use that shit nigga. They sound fine on a good deck through a nice stereo.
>>55367028
As a CPCfag i admit the Spectrum ZX music was great
>>55367238
I never once rewound a cassette with a pencil, so no, it never did break
this pencil thing isn't as popular as you'd think
>>55367307
When did I ever say that it was popular?
>>55367301
I had both but loved the C64's SID chip for sound. It was glorious.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xH57yfZVb74
>>55366811
I remember using the cases to build stuff
and them my mom slapped me
>>55366811
I was using tapes up until a few years ago but my car's deck threw a belt and I still haven't bothered to fix it. Used to record albums from my computer onto tapes with my Akai deck for playing in the car.
I still have my Akai but I tried to run it recently and apparently one of its belts loosened to the point of uselessness. This thing is so beautiful that I think I will try to find the correct belt for it and pop it in.
>>55367569
damn man. that is fiiiiiiiiiine
>>55366830
Pencil?
>>55366811
I haven't used actual cassettes in ages but I still use an adapter so i can play my MP3 player in my truck.
>>55366917
>using tapes for data storage
This isn't Africa
>>55366811
I never forgot
WHAT IS THIS XDDDDDDDDDDD
>>55366981
If you're 40 and here you might have had a life... Makes more sense being old here. Less of a waste. Not as tragic anyway.
>>55367127
It's not for rewinding the tape. Sometimes the tape gets chewed up in the mechanism of the cassette player, and the tape gets pulled off the reels as a result. The pencil is for winding the tape back onto the reels.
Nostalgia
>>55366917
Nobody in First World countries used cassettes with a computer after 1983.
>>55372644
You could at least have posted the first Xbox.
Bottomline is, bad trolling attempt.
>>55367307
Fuck I used to rewind all the time with a pencil when changing games, a few minutes with the pencil while the other game is loading off tape.
>>55372696
I don't think anyone did.
>>55372749
You know there are now people on this board who are 18+ and are born after 1999.
>>55367569
>only dolby b noise reduction
get something with dolby s
>>55373157
Dude, 1997 was 18 years ago.
>>55373004
Bongs used them until like 1992 for some reason.
>>55372696
Wrong.
>>55373189
>backup data tapes
>audio cassettes
back in the day, trolling meant something.jpg
>>55373157
>>55373173
Wtf guys, you both suck at math, people born in the first half of 99' are 17 now.
>>55367127
fuckin retard that's not for rewinding
>>55373205
Back in the day people could express themselves.
He didn't say audio cassettes, he said cassettes, cassette by definition is something with a magnetic tape inside.
>>55372644
underage b&
>>55373205
Same principle. Remember the time when you could Backup your while HDD on a single VHS?
>>55373157
Dude the fucking 360 is the previous generation of consoles, fuck off. How the fuck do you compare it to cassettes or vhs tapes?
>>55373171
I never bothered with any noise reduction. Was mainly listening to the tapes in the car so I surely couldn't notice a little background hiss over all the other noise. Really didn't find it bothersome even listening in the quiet of home either though.
>>55369111
God damn, that's nice.
>people will say tapes are shit
>some of these people will say vinyl is better
>>55373317
You'd se surprised, my sisters son grew up with a fucking Wii, PS3 and 360.
For him they will always be nostalgic crap.
>>55366811
I still use them, they offer much superior warm sound quality than their digital successors.
>>55373705
Warm sound? Yes, but they are lower quality than their digital successors.
The lack of detail, lesser bitrate, is the "warm sound" you are talking about.
>>55373738
>analog
>bit rate
>>55373925
As I said, detail, the bitrate was for analogy.
Only data tapes and cassettes have bitrate.
>>55373953
do we tell him ?
>>55374044
Yes, let's tell them all m8
>>55373925
>analog tapes don't store information
everybody look at this retard and laugh
I've been fucking around with computers/consoles since the age of 5.
So fuck all y'all.
You kids know shit.
>>55374098
You are both right and wrong.
Bitrate get's defined when converting analog to digital, the audio on the tape could be easily converted with a lower bitrate, but using a higher one you won't get more audio detail, but might capture more noise or nothing.
Speed of the tape, weight of the tape and magnetic density define what's the digital bitrate that can be converted onto the tape.
>>55374161
Me too, the first computers I can remember using.
ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, C64, Amiga500, Atari STE, all those fucking 8088 and 286 clones...
When I got older things like the Pentium and PowerPC came to the market.
Yes I do and I remember how shitty and unreliable they were, just like everything else in this thread.
>>55372644
You guys think this is a trolling attempt but you're doing the same shit with a different decade, and when you see the same being done for someone who's a teenager now, you lose your shit. In 5 more years, the 360/PS3/Wii will be considered "retro" and you'll see the words "classic" being used by people who are 15 in 2021 and have never played them before, are inheriting someone else's nostalgia, and saying something is great because it's old even though they've never played it before.
Which is exactly what you are doing right now for all this 80s garbage. Notice how all of the pictures of it are of the PC turned off... that's because none of this shit even works anymore and you're taking pictures of dead tech. In those 5 years the 15 year olds won't know about how the 360 had a 80% failure rate with RROD because it doesn't matter if it's dead or not because all you have to do is take pictures of dead consoles to fit in.
>>55367127
>>55373264
It is, and it's faster. And safer than shitty players [that either stretch tape or spill the guts out]
>>55372696
Actually tapes were common for home computing and gaming, especially in the UK and 'Stralia, right into the early nineties!
>>55374278
>In 5 more years
No, about 10+ years faggot.
>>55374278
For a fact, a 8/16 bit computer or console and early 32 bit ones will outlast a 360 easily, still being 20 years older.
Old surface mount components and parts are way harder to fail, they don't even get hot.
>>55373738
>analog
>lack of detail, lesser bitrate
You are a very special kind of stupid.
>>55374368
Here's your (You).
See
>>55374176
>>55374386
Nope, not even my post. Try harder.
>>55374442
I know it's not your post, you ain't smart enaught.
>>55374176
“bits” are a perfectly valid unit of information and can be applied to every context that deals with information, especially in the context of signal processing.
For example, analog tapes have a well-understood dynamic range (also measured in bits) and frequency response, so you can very easily equate them to an equivalent digital (PCM) signal and estimate the bitrate of that.
>Bitrate get's defined when converting analog to digital
This is grossly oversimplifying things. “bits” aren't somehow magically tied to digital signal processing. You're not thinking abstract enough, you're just looking at the surface of things.
Think about the analog signal and the digital signal just as waveforms. Don't worry about the exact encoding. At the end of the day, they both just encode a signal. You can do useful measurements (in bits or otherwise) on this signal regardless of the encoding.
>>55374624
Thanks for the detailed explanation.
>>55368239
Don't amazon and google store data on tape because its cheaper?
>>55374734
Using tape as archival storage is nothing unusual, a lot of people don't just know it and think it weird.
It's the number one archival storage medium.
Apparently cassettes were/still are capable of producing really good quality sound. It's not on par with a CD but if you wouldn't compare them right next to each other you wouldn't notice the difference. That is if you use type 4 cassettes and a decent playback device with dolby nr. I'd love to waste some money on some old tech to build a nice setup but right now I just can't be bothered to do the research.
The only thing right now is a reverrberation amp, which is pretty rad looking.
Video related:
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_N1n4j-yGg
>>55367096
LOAD"$",8,1
>>55366811
Yes. They were inconvenient and their sound quality was ass.
I'm glad they're gone.
>>55375037
When I record to a metal cassette at double speed with noise reduction on it sounds perfect
>>55374278
Look:
>>55366917
Working
>>55367114
Working
And I have way more, most of them work fine.
>>55366811
You know what's really lacking from modern tech? Mechanical parts.
Technology used to be a blend of electronics and mechanisms: knobs, sliders, motors, springs, turntables, decks, winders, antennas... There used to be an actual interaction with those things, and a real pleasure to do so.
Now you can touch a piece of glass and steel. Enjoy your fucking future.
>>55378727
>BOOHOO WHERE'S MUH STEAMPUNK DEVICES
There is literally only a need for a power button.
>>55378727
>Mechanical parts.
No, not really.
>>55378749
Pic related really is steampunk indeed.
Also you know why we have so many screens and touch screens? Because both provide a great flexibility in design. Nothing is fixed, and everything can be changed on a whim. So even if you fuck up your UI, well it's okay, the display can still show something else, and the touch screen can be reconfigured to work differently.
It is basically the admission that designers these days can't fucking design a coherent device, and need technology to provide room to fix their fuck ups.
Interestingly, we find part of this again into smartwatches and other wearable devices today. But that's only until they start making everything a wrist-sized smartphone.
>>55378764
Enjoy your complete lack of blind interaction I guess.
>>55366917
that shit looks sexy af
>>55366811
Ahhh...the 80's.
>cassette sucked for everything except mixes, CDs were a God send
>VHS sucked
>boom boxes were cool
>8-bit home computers kind of sucked because what can you really do with 64K
>8-bit vidya was actually pretty cool with the NES/SMS generation
>vidya arcades and Chuck E' Cheese were cool
>cars sucked
>cable TV was cool
>DOS PCs sort of sucked because more powerful but still primitive interface
>Macs / Amiga kicked ass and only butthurt poorfag PC owners talked shit
>movies rocked
>TV was better
>communism wasn't trendy and hipster, it was shit to be crushed (as it should be)
>phones had wires and sucked, but kind of not because people weren't glued to them
>people actually went outside which was cool
>35mm cameras became cool gadgets because muh AF and AE
>camcorders were cool because "OMG tv studio in muh hands"
>pic related: 12yo me wanted her so bad
God I wish I could go back knowing what I know now.
>>55379035
64k? I had fucking 1MB since early 85.
>>55379035
Guess I should post a tech picture: after playing with 8-bit micros and DOS PCs as a young child my family got this bad boy, and it kicked the living shit out of anything before it.
>muh 1 MB of RAM
>muh external SCSI 20 MB hard drive
>muh 800K 3.5" floppies
Though I feel bad now for the C64 which was mine (in my room) and which got no love after the Plus arrived. Wish I still had both of those computers. No feelz really for the PCs though.
>>55379086
still have a plus in a carrying bag with a 20 mb non-SCSI disk
68k shit really aged well desu, the interface is great and you can still use it for information-based productivity and games
>>55379035
>80s
>have to steal porno mags to fap or be a perv and watch mom/sis in the shower
What a horrible time to be alive
>>55366811
>>55366850
wtf is this shit, floppy discs?
>>55378963
>"af"
kill yourself
>>55379587
gay bait
>>55367024
>f***
>>55369111
I had that Sony cassette player in my entertainment center for the longest time. Thanks for that blast to the past anon
>>55366811
No. What are those?
>>55366811
Is this a double floppy? A floppy-based communication system?
No seriously guys.
>>55379584
Dude, easy porno on demand has ruined everything.
I remember how exciting it was just to flip through the lingerie section of a catalog while hoping nobody would catch me. Cute Sears model in a bra and panties? I was diamonds.
And finding an actual porno mag to "borrow" was like finding mythical lost treasure. You faced a real danger of dehydration before you were done.
That constant hunger translated into the real world. I attended a private school with actual chapel days. You think the chapel day dress code made things better or worse? Let's see...classy dresses, heels, nylons, and not a fattie or a tat in sight. All I could think about during chapel was fucking each and every girl in my high school.
Now? Hardcore porn is barely a turn on, and real life is filled with fatties and raging drunk sluts with tats.
Damn I miss the 80's.
>>55379645
Is that poo on his nose???
>>55368239
god damn, that's a sexy piece of kit
my dick is hardening
>>55366850
>good times
fucking around to reel in tapes that were all chewed up was no fun
>>55366952
played the stupid little racing game on it for hours
>>55379086
I'm beginning to hate 800k floppies simply because nothing fucking reads them (unless you have an early to mid 90s era Mac to bridge the gap), so getting data onto a particularly old Mac is nearly impossible.
400k floppies are even worse.
man, a maxed out 4MB Plus is a beauty (nothing like fucking around with the memory sizes so you could run Word and Excel at the same time, and there's nothing quite as dumb as spending hours installing System 7 only to realize it's unusably slow and ate most of your disk space)
>>55384273
>floppies
Do yourself a favor and get an old PPC PowerBook. G3 with L2 cache so it runs decent. Naturally make sure it has a working floppy module.
You can get the files off via Ethernet or, with a PC Card USB adapter, USB thumb drive. (Even with OS 9 you can use a modern thumb drive as long as it's formatted HFS.)
Picked one up and cloned every last classic Mac floppy I had to a thumb drive.
>>55384273
>>55385665
PhoneNET nigga
It's an absolute godsend, slower but works on pretty much anything post-system 6 and means no more 3.5'' autism
>>55379035
>movies rocked
The 80s was actually a rather garbage decade for movies compared to the 70s.
>TV was better
No it wasn't.
>>55388142
Look, some 90's kid is talking about the 80's!
