Cassette Tape Nostalgia – A Blast from the Past Courtesy of Tapedeck.Org

As far as people of a certain age are concerned – and that very much includes myself – it is sobering to think that there are younger people out there who have never actually either used or ever even owned a cassette tape, but for those of us who experienced this particular, somewhat temperamental storage medium you may well be interested in taking a trip down memory lane whist spotting all the cassettes you may have owned.

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TapeDeck.Org offers beautifully laid out imagery of cassette tapes from the like of BASF, TDK, Sony and Maxell to name but a few and it certainly brings the memories flooding back. Who can possibly forget the hours spent trying to unravel caught tapes from the pinch rollers of the cassette decks before winding it all back in with a pencil or, in worse case scenarios, taking out the tiny screws from the plastic shell in a desperate attempt to find just where in the reel the tape has become folded.

If like me, you spent hours of your youth sitting patiently with your finger on the pause button trying to second guess when the DJ would start talking in order to edit him/her out this magnificent online cassette museum brings it all back home and it’s quite alarming just how many of the cassettes shown stir our recollections.

Out of interest, if you happen to have carrier bags full of cassette tape stored up in the roof in in the deepest recesses of a cupboard, and you yearn to re-master your ‘megamixes’ you may find the previously featured standalone cassette to MP3 converter, the Plus Deck EX, of interest.

[Source | SwissMiss]