The Sony CHF60 has already been added to this blog, and you can find the full text for the tape in the post: 1981 Sony CHF60 Audio Cassette.
I did, however, think it was also worth adding this post for the 90 minute version, if only for the photo. What a great encapsulation of the technology of 1980 this image is.
A reminder that not all commercial audio cassette recording was related to music or the spoken voice. Back in the distant depths of 1980 there was a thriving cottage industry creating and selling audio recordings of British locomotives, and not just steam. Classic diesel recordings were also very popular. Continue reading Deltic Duties Audio Cassette (1980)
No one raised the importance of the electric guitar like Jimi Hendrix. Not that electric guitars were any sort of insignificance before Hendrix arrived on the scene, of course, but he did markedly elevate the guitarist’s potential status within a band. He showed that it was possible for the guitar to grab such attention in a rock group, that Continue reading Jimi Hendrix Experience – Live at Winterland cassette
Tape Tardis 