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7/25/2025, 12:34:57 PM
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People bought the cheapest, shittiest quality, thin tapes to save money. As a result, the format had to be very fault tolerant. Even with that, it was common to lose data saved on cassettes. If you had a good quality tape deck and used only high quality cassettes, it worked pretty well. Some programmers would create their own custom loaders that could use data of much higher density but that only worked if you used quality materials.
I never saw one in person but apparently a few computer owners of that era hooked up reel-to-reel audio decks to their computer, giving them the ability to store tons of data in short segments of tape. This too required custom loaders to work.
People bought the cheapest, shittiest quality, thin tapes to save money. As a result, the format had to be very fault tolerant. Even with that, it was common to lose data saved on cassettes. If you had a good quality tape deck and used only high quality cassettes, it worked pretty well. Some programmers would create their own custom loaders that could use data of much higher density but that only worked if you used quality materials.
I never saw one in person but apparently a few computer owners of that era hooked up reel-to-reel audio decks to their computer, giving them the ability to store tons of data in short segments of tape. This too required custom loaders to work.
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