Holy crap!

[spatch]

Cassette tapes!

See how many you remember. Even just staring at a few of these brings back memories like you wouldn't believe.




This was the mix tape staple.


These were pretty crummy, but oh so trendy! Especially the 120 min tape. Hissy and crappy, and I can't imagine hearing Jane's Addiction on anything but.


We had every single Steely Dan album on this type of cassette.


The guy who gave me the Pink Floyd collection did so on these.


August 1996 / Bob is a very big cat.



What do you remember?

Comments

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the funky Memorex (I think my sister used those a lot) and the Maxell XL90 look pretty familiar. But I think I did most of my own duping of my friends' late-Eighties CD collections on some variety of TDK cassette that isn't displayed on that page.

Also, I remember that TDK had a variety that was specifically labeled a "DATA CASSETTE" for use in your Atari 410 Program Recorder or equivalent.

[manfire.livejournal.com]

I have one of these bad boys left over from the '70s; my mom used it to pirate somebody's Engelbert Humperdinck album back in her wild and crazy late twenties or early thirties. That's the tape that taught me about my love for "The Hump", as I call him.

When I was in junior high school, on the other hand, my friends and I somehow convinced ourselves that those Maxell XL II 90 tapes seen above were higher in quality than any other tapes EVER.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

They were really really popular, and I remember them being rumored to be extra-good too. I'm sure that at least 90% of that was snake oil.