... additional stuff to this odd edition https://buyee.jp/item/jdirectitems/...c_browsing_hisotry_list#group=nogroup&photo=1 May be, it`s a selfmade merch cassette from Mazda for professional sellers - there are no code on the small sides, and the long narrow front side is without any declaration, - but case is original TDK. I know another TDK "CAR" - cassette : but this fits more to the other gimmick - tapes.
I've got one or two around here, back in the 80's it was normal to have a tape in the new car that might have "stereo" demonstrations or just info on your new car. I wonder if they've become collectable?
Yea I guess, I thought the car connection would have elevated value more but not so much, they are selling for a little more now. This is on Ebay, it would have matched my old 88 Ford Thunderbird Turbocoupe although I don't see the hood scoops on this car. My buddy next door had the first of this body style in town and his dad let us cruise with it for a few weeks impressing everyone. It was also the same time as Pyromania and we pretty much burned that tape out in his car.
Somewhere I have a cassette from Hertz car rental, presumably a freebie when you hired a car. There were loads of promotional cassettes in the 1980s and 90s. Back in the day we got a couple from buying biscuits. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/267144468875 The eBay search showed more than I thought with nine different titles. From what I remember they only had a choice of two or three at any one time. On interest did the USA go through a phase of free CDs with Sunday Newspapers ? At one point Prince gave away his latest album as he reckoned he would get more money from the Newspaper than the Record company. https://time.com/archive/6908354/why-princes-free-cd-ploy-worked/
I got "free" CDs with something like a Mountain Dew Promotion in the early 90's, they were my first and included Metalicca Black Album and Hole, Live Through This. CDs were still very expensive in 1992 and not usually given away. I had a Russian Friend that was buying all the crappy $7 CDs and shipping them to Poland where they would resell them, it didn't matter what the content was, they just wanted CDs.
All the CDs I am thinking of were specially compiled, probably using the tracks that were cheapest to licence. Sometimes you would find some tracks were concert recordings. As for the cassettes above note that they only had ten tracks on the tape. Half a K'Tel album would be a good way of describing them.
I just recently picked up a sealed Ford Demo tape, which is unusual in a few ways. Most all of the earlier (‘82 to ‘88) Ford demo tapes were in Loran shells, a high temp material specifically made for car environments, with rotating record protect tabs, which meant they could be reused if you got tired of the music. The quality of the recordings is superb, really CD quality. Even the later ones on TypeI were excellent. This one is particularly great because it is a 1984 release on TypeIV in conjunction with a Sheffield Labs, recorded in real time, but IEC2, vs the identical album on Nakamichi Sound of Nakamichi recorded with IEC1. Since the ebay seller knew nothing about what he had, it was listed with a BIN of less than $20 w/free shipping. This allowed me a unique opportunity to directly compare two identical very quality recordings on metal recorded in pre and post 1981 Prague format. So now I can really test how much of a difference I can hear with these tapes played back on Nakamichi and non Nakamichi IEC2 TOTL decks. Fun stuff! (For me, anyway).
Never heard of them. I have a ton of used cassettes, but I've never seen these. Are these the ones where the record tap is actually a switch and not a break tab? Interesting thread about car audio demo tapes. I didn't know they existed.
Correct. A simple solution to a sometimes PITA issue. Their main claim was stability in temperature extremes. That is the first time I’ve actually seen a sealed consumer blank!!!! VERY hard to find. I wonder whose tape they used?
Cassette Comeback has stock and a write-up on them. https://www.cassettecomeback.com/pr...u7afSv6KuGu7eCKCpk8s95PqpcFFswHpd8MthOtJofGHa
Cool, thanks for that upload. I once found a cassette like that with a switch-like safety catch. It's a strange cassette with a cutout on the top. There's no brand name on it, but it does say it's from USA. Is it a Loran, perhaps?
Also never heard about such cassettes with these switchable record tabs. Interesting stuff anyway. I already found the solution on TDK MA-R interesting, where you are able to tilt by 90° to lock out, but if you do it more times, tabs often had to come loose and get lost...
That’s not a Loran as they are all a form of Lexan shell, very hard and rigid, while that is a typical looking shell material and their write protect is a rotating part, not sliding. I have an idea what that cassette is with an odd center top cut out, and six screws, so if I had to guess, I’d say it was a computer data cassette, and that cutout would prevent a normal audio cassette from being inserted in it’s place.
