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Museum of Portable Sound · @museumofportablesound
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Donna (Tori Spelling) discovers that leaving a tape in the glove compartment of a car in southern California causes it to melt while Kelly (Jennie Garth) looks on in Season 4 Episode 3 of Beverly Hills 90120 (22 Sept 1993)

#cassettes #tape #reeltoreel #magnetictape #torispelling #beverlyhills90210 #portablesoundontelevision #portablesound #jenniegarth #90stv #90s

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Museum of Portable Sound · @museumofportablesound
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Our : Unopened Maxell Original UR IEC Type I Normal Bias Compact Cassette (date unknown; presumed 1990s). Detail images courtesy Museum of Portable Sound Archives.

#objectoftheweek #maxell #compactcassette #cassettetape #normalbias #magnetictape #cassettes #archives #museumofportablesound #itsokaytobenormal

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Museum of Portable Sound · @museumofportablesound
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"Scotch Cassettes. They just might outlive you." Magazine advert (1979)

#cassettes #oldage #compactcassette #magnetictape #advertising

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Sinclair-Speccy · @SinclairSpeccy
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You know that the computer's colour scheme is really nice. Forget the woman trying to lure me in, I want the computer!

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#datascribe #ibm360 #ibm #coloured #ad #retro #magnetictape #tape #datarecorder #vangaurd

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Bob Young :verified: · @fifonetworks
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Has anyone ever tried to use an electron microscope to read data from a hard drive? Digital archeologists are going to need some way to recover data from magnetic media after the charge is too weak to read it with the standard magnetic read/write head.

#digital #archaeology #archivists #hdd #magnetictape #Diskdrive

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Jim Donegan ✅ · @jimdonegan
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#history #computinghistory #computerhistory #computing #retrocomputing #ibmxd11964 #ibmmainframe #educational #xd11964 #magnetictape #punchcard #mainframe #ibm #educationalfilm #computers

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Museum of Portable Sound · @museumofportablesound
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American students use headphones to listen to reel-to-reel language tapes in a high school language lab (1972)

#soundbeyondmusic #listening #magnetictape #reeltoreel #headphones

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