Date : Mon, 27 Apr 2020 14:40:58 +0300
From : antonis@... (A. Plevrakis )
Subject: Rescuing cassette tapes
I think it would be impossible to use an open reel2reel as a cassette tape
player. For starters, the tape and the reading head is much bigger. 2nd,
the axis of the spool is much bigger also. But primarily, I think it would
not be compatible to read, magnetically.
What I would do is connect a tape deck to the sound input of a laptop and
use software like Audacity to record the sound uncompressed to computer files.
If you don?t have a tape deck, it would be cheap to buy one. You could then
even use the pc as a tape player for your bbc.
Antonis, Crete.-
27 ??? 2020, 13:55, ? ??????? ?Michael Howard <mike@...>?
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>> On 27/04/2020 10:25, Rob Malpass wrote:
>> Hi all
>>
>> I have just discovered what must be at least a 40 year old cassette tape.
I played it for 10 seconds on a player ? long enough to determine that:
>> It had some BBC micro stuff on it and
>> That it sounded so bad I didn?t want it screwing up my hifi or BBC micro
tape deck.
>>
>> So I need to get the data off. I would happily buy a new cassette deck
(Argos are still selling them for ?30) and risk the tape mangling the mechanism
or vice versa. What I?d really like (and this brings me to my question)
is some sort of reel to reel device which plays standard cassettes which
allowed me to easily fix (by cracking the tape open and just taking the spools)
any problems. A better description would be a reel to reel player for cassettes
tape. After a quick search, I?ve not turned anything up.
>>
>> Is there such a device? Anyone had any success with other methods?
>>
>>
> Could you not buy a reel to reel on flea-bay and manually load up your tape?
>
> https://www.ebay.co.uk/b/Vintage-Reel-to-Reel-Tape-Recorders/116868/bn_450877
>
> A bit fiddly but might work ...
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> Michael Howard
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