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for creators, it has never left...

Manufacturers were less likely to use the term "Compact Cassette" as it was a registered brand name of Philips - why mention the competition? I used the term occasionally through in the 80s, largely as a point of mirth. But a fair number of blank tapes sold in the UK had "Compact Cassette" printed on the labelling somewhere

Culture is in a constant state of rebirth

Remember cleaning the audio head with a q-tip and some alcohol?

cassettes NO, sound sucked, recording sucked, new radios and speakers would just make more background sound, ALBUMS, YES.

i have a 20 year old thinkpad r51 with me with a cd drive working with windows xp. i use it mainly to learn programming i was able to find a notepad++ version compatible with windows xp and bought a $6 keyboard cuz its keyboard wasnt working. it runs pretty good and you can store music and other multimedia files in it as backup. i also have my documents backed up on it.

It always comes back...

They TRY to sell them for that and on occasion they will get lucky, but if you go back and look at most of those items, they didn’t sell. You can ASK whatever you want for a price, doesn’t mean you’re going to get it.

great video! For some reason I have been interested in recording a few of my vinyls onto tape lol. Picked up an old Onkyo to give it a shot - wish me luck 😂

Please Say it out loud,let the world hear it.Let the audio cassettes and the decks comeback, there's a human element in this there's a physical connect. One can choose, read about the music, song, written on the reverse, it's so profound on LP records, there's something to read and buy and listen to. The online music has no connect, it's bland , it's like Listen if you want to, just switch it on, or else move on, something of that sort of feeling. Nothing physical to hold on, keep a collection to feast on when the mood strikes.Some thing to feel proud of ,see it, feel it, and listen to it. It's just my opinion, excuse me ,no harm intended.

25:32 StarTrek logo?

I like to be able to listen to music, without draining my phone battery. I can fit four cassettes in my pockets. Can't fit four CDs. Easy choice

My GO TO cassette was the XLii90 and XLii100. Yea I never bought an album on tape due to quality. But all of my albums recorded to a tape always sounded great.

please replace the words "sound blaster 16" by "gravis ultrasound"

How did you set up 4 channel speakers for the Blu-ray Audio. Can you just connect 4 speakers??

Spot on!!! I like you enough to spend hours making you a mixed tape!!!🤣 and stay away from tapes over 90 min.! Too thin, eats tapes! We didnt have the resources to research if whatever we heard was true. We heard from other peoples experiences or our own trial and errors. Great video! I heard on an interview with neil young, him talking about tape vs cd. He said the cd is just a representaion of the music and as far as the tape hiss was the air from the microphone from the master tape, which i want to believe, so i will! It just makes me feel better about it! Thanks for the video!👍

True 3D games like, only race or flight sim offered any real fps acceptible like FS 5.1 or Grandprix, Need fo speed. Temptation to upgrade is indeed very high as we are so spoiled by present systems. 486 Win 3.x might for me be the limit as Win 95 is more a pentium thing. Shooters waist of time nothing significant except a score, more love building, stategy gmas except simulations !

Never ventured beyond Diamond Stealth Speedstar Pro. 3dfx Voodoo hardly run any card with success. Interested in that compatibality chart ? Stil desire ato have a 386/ 486 system and a pentium 4 1.0 Ghz as that what inbetween my present pentiums and Duo Quadra core systems !

there pretty neat to be honest

How the heck doers Star Fox NOT make the top ten?!

Nostalgia is literally the only reason I buy anything old, well, also because I love old stuff. I enjoy the quality, along with the nostalgia. I grew up in the 90’s. Had few cassettes. My music choice was different as a kid. Alternative rock, then I got into metal. All I buy are those genres. More so metal. Vinyls, cassettes. Hell, im buying vhs too as I see it.

New Model F F77 gang. Absolutely love it and am using it right now. I find the M key-feel too heavy.

Pretty much all prerecorded tapes you could buy were recorded on Type I low bias tapes that sound awful. The only serviceable decent sounding recordings would be recordings you made yourself on high bias tapes. The primary use for cassettes was recording your friend's albums or CDs. They were very useful for that. Given file-sharing there really is not a use for that. I never wasted my money on prerecorded tapes. Blank high bias tapes are extremely expensive now.

I got a S3 card with that memory expansion on it thing looks like a beast at the back of the card the extra memory although not much more does help with game play but really if your using pci slot there are better choices like voodoo 3DFX or Nvidia S3 lost in the gaming wars of the time they were released and dropped out of making cards after this one

Can you still find Rompaq files for this model in case you need to reset the EISA configs on for example a new or replacement hard drive? I loved mine back in the day. Thanks for the video!

Cassette tapes have side A and side B… … so it’s only logical their successor would be the CD.

15:00 - On the vinyl vs digital best sound, I have many of both and it is not about the medium. There are recordings that were mastered better on vinyl, and others on digital. Some songs are best on the 45rpm single version. There is no doubt in my mind that digital is the best medium, but after all these years we still suck at mastering, and sometimes the old vinyl, or the new vinyl in some cases, is best. What is really annoying is the inconsistencies.

It is interesting because I came of age during the CD era. We used cassettes mainly to record singles played on the FM Radio. By the time I got into my later high school years and college - we were able to burn CD's pretty standard. Throughout the years I was also a musician and have seen that particular sound industry evolve as well. I have a vinyl and cassette collection that I actively still purchase to expand however, I mostly listen to my cassettes. I do believe that nostalgia has something to do with it however, I also believe that a saturation of perfect sound quality has made me appreciate the older methods of recording and listening. For example - I listen to metal and heavy metal. As crappy as cassettes might be, I can hear the difference between Whitesnake and Ratt just based off the guitar tone. The creation and exportation of sound quality was determined by many different variables back in the day - engineer, producer, gear, etc. Today, a random musician can get flawless sound quality on their macbook with a few app plugins. Its great for the musician but it has watered down the pallet of the consumer. This watering down, in my opinion - has pushed people like myself to go backwards in time where I am able to listen to a classic studio release like Ride the Lightning with all of its imperfections. Vinyl is still pretty pricey. I can buy groups of cassettes in the metal genre for about $2 to $5 per cassette.

And as a keyboard specialist and a fan of the computer, I may as well be worse off without Don Estridge, even though I never met the "gentleman" in my whole life.☹

The IBM PC (5150) was the first microcomputer I used in 1988 but at Control Data Institute in Manhattan, New York. After I saw IBM-compatible and clone microcomputers in Byte, PC Magazine, PC World, and MacWorld magazines, a microcomputer was something I wanted very much, until 2002. The IBM PC had a keyboard like a console, which keys had a crisper touch slightly above the IBM Selectric typewriter. Both machines were great to be used by typists and keyboard specialists, too. My first own microcomputer was Cybernet from 2002 until 2017. Then in 2017, I bought a brand microcomputer I should have had in the beginning called Dell. I have a Canon color laser printer with a scanner and a Brother P-touch label printer that may be connected to my microcomputer I call my Keyboard, as my powerful typewriter, hence my keyboarding skill. I like this system much better than the old-fashioned typewriter, and I would not want to look back anymore.

Steven Wozniak along with others such as Dennis Ritchie are the real unsung heroes of the computer industry.

Just an observation - in the UK, we've always called Technics "TEKniks", but Americans seem to pronounce it "TekNEEKS". . Just an observation.

Some tapes sound much better than CDs. Don't believe me. Ask any og deadhead

I ran a studio in the 80s and 90s and i owned that same stack of gear (about6 mins in) for handing rough mixes to band members. Good choices brother! Tascam and Fostex both made 4 track home recording studio gear. These were a game changer for songwriters who couldn't afford studio time to get their ideas down. Tascam even made a could of multitrack decks for the home studio that allowed 8 tracks. Low budget indie albums may have gotten their start here in the cassette format. Thanks for this video. BTW I think I have some 8 track cartridge tapes hanging around. My bands soundman had an 8track cartridge recorder and used to make "off the board" live tapes. Someday I will have to get one of those and listen to how bad we were then ;-)

Yes

I just picked one up for 25 dollars. Thought it might be a fun thing to have when i dont wanna lug my switch around. Also, on the go,i prefer to play quick games, so this is wonderful to have a few rounds of mortal kombat 3. Sound doesnt bother me.

I remember I had a Sony Clié that came with a Spiderman video from the movie, it was very similar to this one! Amazing memories.

Yes.. Yea... They should come back.. Its nostalgia

There I was sitting in my Room with my parents showing them off the new 7800 I finally bought after saving my little pay packets and regaling them with stories of my old 5200 and how the system itself still works but the controllers both do not all while my mother is kicking some serious ass in centipede (she apparently used to play it a lot) and now 3 days later this pops up Coincidence?

I dont believe in the nostalgia thing. I like how things are made mechanically and love how they feel as they whizz and turn and click. It's FUN. Just like toys. A touch screen isnt as fun

many may disagree with me, but man I love recording in real time! As a bonus, I get to listen to what goes onto the cassette

A better demonstration of how poor the 5150 was is to compare its direct rival the Victor 9000. In every way the Victor was faster, better designed and better value and out before the IBM machine. And in another history without IBM badging a bit of a bodge job, the Victor line of machines would have become the office pc - as it did so in Europe until the delayed IBM pc entered the market and there too and blinded everyone with the IBM name.

The IBM pc did get positive reviews at the time and yes against most home computers it had some advantages over them in 1981. It was however a very poor computer to start a dynasty from.

I'd like to see what a 16k cassette driven 5150 could actually do? Even basic must have been too big to run on it?

Being from the UK what did he mean by 'it 's better from the fountain'? And also what is RC?

Hi res is pointless. Save even more money by not bothering with it.

If you can ever get to hear a good tape in a Revox B 215 with any idea of a Cassette Tape not sounding good before you hear it in that machine ,you will be a convert after listening ..

THAT was a VERY thorough and informative look into the Apple ][ line. Thank you!

What tape did you use for the masking?

Nintendo could put this on Nintendo Switch Online.