A look at the computer compatible cassette recorders I have Of course, we all knew "Computer compatible" was just a way to sell low quality crappy cassette recorders no-one would ever want to listen to music on But computers like the ZX Spectrum loved the sharp sound output Did you use one of these with your Speccy? Many of us did, well I didn't because I started with a datasette with my Commodore Plus 4, and when I "upgraded" to my Sinclair Spectrum 128, I used the headphone output on my Bush Midi Hifi system.And then I moved on to 3 1/2 inch floppys with my Amiga 500 PlusBecause that's what I'm like! There are 5 cassette recorders in the museum
I got this cassette recorder with my Acorn Electron, it's a shoebox style cassette recorder as was the style at the time, but slightly wider. It was released in 1979 and has all the usual features you would expect for the time, like auto stop, built-in microphone, headphone out and microphone in through a DIN connector. It can be powered by the mains through a normal C7 (figure-8) lead, or by five C cells. The automatic in the name probably refers to the auto stop feature
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I hope you all find this as interesting and as nostalgic as I do.
And if you do, why not check out the next page in my retro museum... Collections
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Special thanks to my long-suffering partner Denise for putting up with all this "nonsense".
No cats were unnecessarily annoyed during the creation of this site
Well, maybe Olly was slightly irritated because breakfast was a few minutes late because the human was up late working on this site and overslept... CATS!
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