This cassette jumped out at me at an antique shop today.
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This cassette jumped out at me at an antique shop today.
Not because of the content. It's just someone's mixtape from 1988.
But I love that whomever made the tape then went over to their computer, loaded up a template or a dedicated piece of software, and printed out a custom j-card on their dot matrix printer. The future was now!
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This cassette jumped out at me at an antique shop today.
Not because of the content. It's just someone's mixtape from 1988.
But I love that whomever made the tape then went over to their computer, loaded up a template or a dedicated piece of software, and printed out a custom j-card on their dot matrix printer. The future was now!
The cash register this place uses is also two layers of #RetroComputing interest:
The physical computer is what I believe is a Mac Mini G4 running OS X (which would mean 10.3-10.5).
The register software it runs is much, much older, however. I can't be sure of the software's resolution, but it *looked* like the 512x342 of the original compact Macs, and it was definitely rendered in 1-bit B&W.
I commented on the setup, and the guy just kind of shrugged and said it was an antique shop.
Fair.
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This cassette jumped out at me at an antique shop today.
Not because of the content. It's just someone's mixtape from 1988.
But I love that whomever made the tape then went over to their computer, loaded up a template or a dedicated piece of software, and printed out a custom j-card on their dot matrix printer. The future was now!
@screambiogenesis That is an incredible piece of history!
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@screambiogenesis That is an incredible piece of history!
@arisummerland Yeah, for US$2-3, I thought it was well worth rescuing.
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This cassette jumped out at me at an antique shop today.
Not because of the content. It's just someone's mixtape from 1988.
But I love that whomever made the tape then went over to their computer, loaded up a template or a dedicated piece of software, and printed out a custom j-card on their dot matrix printer. The future was now!
@screambiogenesis Dolby C! I have a deck with that but don’t use it because it’s kinda weird. Love the tape and card though.
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This cassette jumped out at me at an antique shop today.
Not because of the content. It's just someone's mixtape from 1988.
But I love that whomever made the tape then went over to their computer, loaded up a template or a dedicated piece of software, and printed out a custom j-card on their dot matrix printer. The future was now!
@screambiogenesis That would have been printed on either an ImageWriter or ImageWriter II printer, because the main font used is Geneva 9. The "A" and "B" denoting the sides of the tape are printed in Chicago 12.
Nat'rly.
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@screambiogenesis That would have been printed on either an ImageWriter or ImageWriter II printer, because the main font used is Geneva 9. The "A" and "B" denoting the sides of the tape are printed in Chicago 12.
Nat'rly.
@_the_cloud Oh, good eye! I thought it looked kind of ImageWritery, but I haven't used one since last millennia, so I couldn't be sure. Though you're right that that's pretty obviously Chicago, so I guess I could have been a *little* sure...
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@screambiogenesis Dolby C! I have a deck with that but don’t use it because it’s kinda weird. Love the tape and card though.
I thought it was interesting that they were that specific. I guess they were proud of their hardware and mixtaping skills!
Sadly, my only tape deck just does Dolby A (and is kind of broken in general), so I dunno when I'll be able to admire said skills!
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This cassette jumped out at me at an antique shop today.
Not because of the content. It's just someone's mixtape from 1988.
But I love that whomever made the tape then went over to their computer, loaded up a template or a dedicated piece of software, and printed out a custom j-card on their dot matrix printer. The future was now!
@screambiogenesis BTW, I love this cover for the first song
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@screambiogenesis BTW, I love this cover for the first song
That's a fun cover!
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@_the_cloud Oh, good eye! I thought it looked kind of ImageWritery, but I haven't used one since last millennia, so I couldn't be sure. Though you're right that that's pretty obviously Chicago, so I guess I could have been a *little* sure...
@screambiogenesis @_the_cloud I used to make mixtape covers like this with our Mac Plus
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This cassette jumped out at me at an antique shop today.
Not because of the content. It's just someone's mixtape from 1988.
But I love that whomever made the tape then went over to their computer, loaded up a template or a dedicated piece of software, and printed out a custom j-card on their dot matrix printer. The future was now!
@screambiogenesis and it probably still sounds great!
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@screambiogenesis @_the_cloud I used to make mixtape covers like this with our Mac Plus
@europlus @_the_cloud Nice! Do you happen to remember what program you used?
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@europlus @_the_cloud Nice! Do you happen to remember what program you used?
@screambiogenesis @_the_cloud almost certainly MacDraw.
I *may* be able to recover them (only about half my old disks read when I last tried) or I may have already, let me check.
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@screambiogenesis @_the_cloud almost certainly MacDraw.
I *may* be able to recover them (only about half my old disks read when I last tried) or I may have already, let me check.
@screambiogenesis @_the_cloud ok, from my phone I can see I have at least two disks of such things recovered via and Applesauce with the files extracted, and although those ones don’t have an audio cassette case insert, the do have a VHS insert which was the size of a VHS tape and had an empty table with (from memory) headings for entering tape contents and counter positions in it.
I’ll check the contents of the other disk images.
I also found (which I knew) my Castle Wolfenstein and Beyond Castle Wolfenstein map templates (rooms always had same layout, but didn’t have same contents between “campaigns”), so I know I’m on the right scent…
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@screambiogenesis @_the_cloud ok, from my phone I can see I have at least two disks of such things recovered via and Applesauce with the files extracted, and although those ones don’t have an audio cassette case insert, the do have a VHS insert which was the size of a VHS tape and had an empty table with (from memory) headings for entering tape contents and counter positions in it.
I’ll check the contents of the other disk images.
I also found (which I knew) my Castle Wolfenstein and Beyond Castle Wolfenstein map templates (rooms always had same layout, but didn’t have same contents between “campaigns”), so I know I’m on the right scent…
@europlus @_the_cloud Wow, that sounds cool. I had honestly forgotten about MacDraw and was picturing MacPaint in its place.
Really need to get my SE/30 resuscitated one of these days, it's been too long.
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This cassette jumped out at me at an antique shop today.
Not because of the content. It's just someone's mixtape from 1988.
But I love that whomever made the tape then went over to their computer, loaded up a template or a dedicated piece of software, and printed out a custom j-card on their dot matrix printer. The future was now!
@screambiogenesis That's one of the things I love about that era. A lot of people were quite neat about their floppies too, printing out neat little dot matrix labels. I've got a ton of 5.25" ones like that that I myself made
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This cassette jumped out at me at an antique shop today.
Not because of the content. It's just someone's mixtape from 1988.
But I love that whomever made the tape then went over to their computer, loaded up a template or a dedicated piece of software, and printed out a custom j-card on their dot matrix printer. The future was now!
@screambiogenesis I have a whole box of those at home
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This cassette jumped out at me at an antique shop today.
Not because of the content. It's just someone's mixtape from 1988.
But I love that whomever made the tape then went over to their computer, loaded up a template or a dedicated piece of software, and printed out a custom j-card on their dot matrix printer. The future was now!
@screambiogenesis if yu want, you can upload it here https://intertapes.net/
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