Blank 8-tracks?
Mixomatosis 1251059435|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
Does anyone know where you can get blank 8-track tapes in bulk? Preferably in the UK? Ta.
Blank 8-tracks?
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Mixomatosis 1251059435|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
Re: Blank 8-tracks?
junkshop coyote 1251063022|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
What sort of mischief are you up to now? :D
Re: Blank 8-tracks?
Thee Crumb 1251063303|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
You may laugh, but somebody, somewhere - incredible as it may seem - is still making 8-Track tapes, as Cheap Trick's new album has just been issued on that format. Presumably for the twenty guys in mid-west America who still have them in their trucks, I guess.
Personally, I think reel-to-reel tapes and those punch cards for player pianos are where it's at these days…
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tomoroh 1251116788|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
yeah, we should do a digivomit player piano punchcard compilation…:)
all those "retro" technologies start to get a charm of their own allready, i think.
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iivix 1251141514|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
Personally, I'd love to record onto some wire
The wire reels were recorded or listened at nominally 24 inches per second (610 mm/s), making a typical one-hour reel 7,200 feet (approx. 2195 m) long.
Yes, if you recorded an album on wire it would be over 2km long.
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tomoroh 1251146636|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
wow, those wire recorders look really interesting. wanna have!
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junkshop coyote 1251243969|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
Ooh, lost Tom Lehrer recordings. God bless him.
Re: Blank 8-tracks?
Mixomatosis 1252438252|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
"What sort of mischief are you up to now? :D"
I have two ideas, neither particularly plausible unless I have a bulk batch of tapes that are the same length. And that's the difficult bit, finding tapes the same length - I've found odd ones around on eBay lasting 40, 45, 60 and 90 minutes. I wouldn't mind buying odd ones here and there, but I'd have to pay P+P on all of them, individually.
