Date   : Mon, 27 Apr 2020 13:26:27 +0100
From   : c.j.thornley@... (Chris Thornley)
Subject: Rescuing cassette tapes

Hi,
If you haven?t got a suitable cassette deck. Search for one on eBay which
has good spares available.
For example grundig have a CR485 which is frequently available on eBay. As
these decks are from the late 70s / 80s they will need a new belt kit
fitted they are easy to find online. Sometimes they are sold as faulty
which essentially means the belts have gone.
The grundig unit has a din socket on its left hand side. Purchase one of
those 5pin din to 4 phone plug leads.
This will allow you to connect the device to a suitable audio capture
device.
Use audacity to record a wave file from your tape.
You can then use various other software to convert the wave file to a tape
image.

Hope this helps

Chris

On Mon, 27 Apr 2020@..., Rob Malpass <lug@...> 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:
>
>    1. It had some BBC micro stuff on it and
>    2. 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?
>
>
>
> Cheers
>
> R
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