Pics of your Favorite Cassette Tapes

[Bob Boyer]

Hell, it's more readable than mine. My 7th grade teacher asked me even then if Captain Chicken was my handwriting teacher.

 

[J!m]

My signature alarmed my physician.

 

[Elite-ist]

Are you interested in a mix tape swap, Jim? I can record a copy of my 7" 45 RPM project onto a TDK ferric cassette for you.

Nando.

 

[J!m]

Perhaps; let’s see how this comes out.

After my first cup of coffee I did some arranging of songs and a bit more trimming.

 

[Elite-ist]

Sure - most of the work is done in the Mastering. Recording from the Master is straight-forward.

Nando.

 

[J!m]

Yeah, that’s the easy part!

 

[MarkWComer]

Does anyone remember Memorex with the swing away protective case? Don’t see any of those…

 

[20tajk7]

These cases are cool, the tapes way less.

 

[MarkWComer]

These cases are cool, the tapes way less.

A memory:
Memorex tape in the under- dash Radio Shack cassette deck of my 1971 Ford Pinto, playing DEVO’s “Freedom Of Choice,” when the timing chain on the engine broke. Every time I hear that album I remember being stranded 30 miles from home.

 

[Elite-ist]

Got a few of the Memorex tapes in the swing-away cases. I bought a grouping of tapes, recently, with a couple of them.



Nando.

 

[MarkWComer]

Got a few of the Memorex tapes in the swing-away cases. I bought a grouping of tapes, recently, with a couple of them.

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Nando.

Yup! There they are! And those stupid hub plugs that always got lost!

 

[J!m]

Fortunately, better tapes fit in the cool cases...

 

[WOPL Sniffer]

I'm so crushed....


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Bump

 

[Alex SE]

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still need an ‘86 SA-XG and MA-XG to complete the set.

(not dead yet)

I believe there was a SF from that year/serie, too.

 

[vince666]

not sure if that SF with blue shell is specific to a market zone, i.e. Europe...
for sure, I remember those quite well because I happened to buy a couple back then... should still have them in the box which contains my own old home recorded tapes.

And, if I am correct, in USA the SF tape was called SD.

 

[Alex SE]

SF is, I think, the only TDK tape with dark blue shell instead of classic black.

Wait until I start to record a tapes

 

[20tajk7]

The blue/green SF is for the Japanese & European market.

Always loved that color.

And the equivalent for the US market is the SD in a black shell.

 

[vince666]

some cassette porn for you...

That's Big Family Group












Some older SONY






SONY from mid 80s (always loved these!)

 

[Elite-ist]

Great photo contributions, Vincent. I am an avid fan of Sony cassettes - it's the brand I have used for many years in a lot of my mix tape exchanges.

I have a number of the premium That's cassettes:



Nando.

 

[J!m]

I had never even heard of "That's" until after I got back into cassettes again.