eeg-noar-mee (Tuesday, 3 Feb 2009) Reply
Uhhh, cassette tape? It records sounds too?

Dan (Saturday, 14 Feb 2009) Reply
hey idiot the cassette tape is what the images were stored on, this was 1975 after all, ...go back and play guitar hero while your mom makes you dinner

Nad (Thursday, 19 Feb 2009) Reply
Hey Dan do you use spray to keep your hair set in that nice troll fro, or do you just sleep upside-down in your Batman pajamas?

The Youth Counselor (Sunday, 29 Mar 2009) Reply
Play nice kids. This is a fascinating historical image and we don't need bickering and snickering from the proles while academicians study this relic of time.

G. Horn (Tuesday, 19 May 2009) Reply
I find this very interesting to see how the humble audio cassette started a world that we never new existed way back in the 70's and 80's. Digital Photography.

Mischa (Tuesday, 19 May 2009) Reply
nice one, nad.

Jon (Wednesday, 24 Jun 2009) Reply
The cassette's got Digital Equipment Corporation's label on it, I hope it was higher-grade than regular audio tapes. :) Let's not forget the humble predecessor to the floppy diskette...

Ivana (Wednesday, 20 Jan 2010) Reply
this is pretty cool. i'm doing my speech on camera's and the history of them, i wonder what people will think when i say it was the size of like 2 toasters stacked on top of each other xD

John (Wednesday, 7 Apr 2010) Reply
Jon noted that the cassette tape was a DEC tape. These tapes were designed to store binary digital data, i.e. 0s and 1s, and were the precursors to floppy disks. The magnetic properties had a BH curve that was not linear as would be required for audio.

Old Guy (Thursday, 29 Jul 2010) Reply
Guess I must be, if I'm the only one that remembers using a standard tape recorder and *audio* tapes to save & load *digital* programs on the TRS-80 Model I. And then of course modems, which are still around, turn digital info into audio signals & back again too, so this isn't exactly rocket science kiddies...