On 20 May 2015 at 6:57, Nick Payne wrote: > On 19/05/2015 21:09, David Cantrell wrote: > > In this case the tapes are whatever unsigned bands consisting of > > impoverished students could buy in bulk. So cheap crap made out of > > swarf and brown paint probably. > > A friend of mine who spent a couple of decades repairing VCRs once said > to me: "Using cheap tapes in your machine is like running a mixture of > sandpaper and chewing gum past the heads"...
I'm grateful that in my early years I developed a desire to use quality products for anything I considered important. Age 10 first portable cassete player I bought in 1972 was an ITT: Stereo record. Always bought BASF Chrome tapes, then later Verbatim 5.25 floppies, BASF or Sony VHS tapes etc and all still work. Someone mentioned inexpensive cassete players with easy access to heads, transport mech etc. Car radio/cassete players fit the bill, virtually free from a breakers yard. _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
