This was cutting edge tech… I remember the excitement of replacing floppy discs with CDRs…

  • @D_C@lemm.ee
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    21 month ago

    Wooo, look at hoity toity FancyPants over here with their screwdriver. All we could afford to fix our cassette tapes was a pencil. And a blunt pencil at that. And it was probably stolen from school!! Screwdrivers indeed!

    • The screwdriver is not for the tape. It’s for adjusting the audio head so it can pick up the data on the tape.

      When someone gave you a tape with some nice games on it there was a near 100% chance you needed to adjust your datasette to read them.

        • @hessenjunge@discuss.tchncs.de
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          1 month ago

          A flathead is still a screwdriver, is it not?

          It was a Philips screw IIRC. You can also use a flathead screwdriver on them but you shouldn’t IMHO.