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Adaptor!? Sony microcassette to cassette adapter MR-40A

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From: vwestlife
Duration: 16:38
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Ever wish you could play microcassette tapes in a normal cassette player? You can with the Sony MR-40(A) Microcassette Adaptor from 1977... but only in some types of cassette players. It was also sold by Dictaphone and Lanier.

A much more compact adapter, which could fit the microcassette entirely within the shell of a normal cassette, was patented by Craig Staub in the early 1990s, but I don't think it was ever manufactured: https://patents.google.com/patent/US5280400

And Olympus patented a microcassette to minicassette adapter, but it also apparently never reached production: https://patents.google.com/patent/US4183477

Time flow:
0:00 Introduction
3:01 Overview
7:13 Only fits in some players
9:32 Repair
13:09 Testing
15:22 Other cassette adapters
15:59 Conclusion

#RetroTech #cassette #adaptor

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Apple Sues the YouTuber Who Leaked iOS 26

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In a lawsuit filed against prominent leaker Jon Prosser, Apple alleges a conspiracy to break into a development device and steal its trade secrets. Prosser insists Apple has it all wrong.
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Out today, KILN's Lemon Borealis

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After 30+ years of creating magic together, KILN debuts on ASIP with a new evolution of their previously indescribable sound palette. Lemon Borealis utilizes a fresh process of condensing immersive sprawl into compact, punchy and colorful sound. Using aspects of live performance, beatmaking and waveform sculpting, the troika of Kevin Hayes, Kirk Marrison and Clark Rehberg III create evocative and invigorating dioramas, continuing to surprise and enchant listeners after over thirty years into their collaboration.

Here’s what Norman Records had to say about the album in their Best New Album of the week column:

“…a fizzy and seductive set of electronic mini-funk… It sits somewhere between Tortoise, Mouse on Mars, To Rococo Rot, and perhaps Telefon Tel Aviv at a push, and after thirty years in the game the trio know exactly what they are doing and have honed their sound to perfection. It squelches, it squeaks, it sounds like something that’s come out of Berlin or Chicago (hmm.. Michigan not too far off) and that description won’t change your life but the LP will provide an energy-filled soundtrack to part of it.”

Watch the video by Joseph Querio above and dive in over on Bandcamp, with vinyl copies flying fast!

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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Paperclip

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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Code

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Casual apocalyptic is my term for nude.


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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Boyfriend

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YOU GET OUT OF MY HOUSE BECAUSE I'VE CLEARLY KEPT YOU TOO LONG LET ME CALL YOU A CAB.


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