I dunno if anyone already knows about this, but I started putting this site together ages ago. I don't think I've updated it since 2000 and it's pitifully out of date (and badly designed), but one day I hope to redo it when I get the time and enthusiasm... I have got a few more interesting tapes to scan someday...

http://www.studio2.freeserve.co.uk

this is great! i'm sure a few of us can provide some scans for you too.

Thanks - I didn't know much about making sites when I did it, so I hope to redo the whole thing at some point soon when I get a chance. I'll let you know when it's happening and then any scans will be gratefully accepted.

As examples of some of the ones I'll be looking for for the update...

EMI X-1000
Audio Magnetics various
Ever Ready Standard/Super
CHF Cassette
BASF Ferrochrome
Magnex Studio 2 (!)
Hitachi UD/UR

I picked up a nice BASF LH C90 yesterday which has got on it the Olympics logos for the '72 (?) event in Munich - obviously some kind of special edition. Never seen one before...

I might put up scans of magazine adverts as well, as well as a late '70s "Which?" magazine test of about 20 types... they were very harsh, with the TDK D coming out on top...

that's cool, i have plenty of old cassette pics I'll scan for you if you like. here's a really cool on that Sony made as an accessory to their WM-2 walkman:

Soundhog:

I have some AHF BHF CHF and FECR still in factory wrap.

I will post pictures tonite.

factory sealed!
Where did you grab THEM fj?
best wishes
jens

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Hi,Jen:

About 3 months ago, A friend of mine had a chance to find all these tapes from an audio visual dealer's warehouse in HongKong.

Now those tapes are sitting in my place.

Can't just let those vintage tapes GONE with WIND.

More,

great collection.
That was luck to find that whole old stock!
Congrets to such a find.
Best wishes
Jens

Those Sony's are lovely! I keep thinking I should try some of the few remaining old radio/TV shops etc. in the area for stuff like this, but... I just never seem to get around to it...

...yet.

Wonderful!!! I am not a lonely blank cassette tape collector out there. Thanks for you folks great inputs!!

Some other SONYs I have....

hey soundhog, you definitely should. i checked a few out near me, one owner said he had a few and someone came in and cleaned him out--cassette collecting will be a growing hobby i think.

Wow those Sonys are sick! Hey do you guys have some TDKs in the collection? Like MA-R and early MA-XG? Oh and that other company called That's with the Suono...

i remember back in the day...
(when type 3 (ferrichrome) was the tape of choice for non-dolby car players) all sorts of warnings about tapes self-destructing over time, and such arcane concerns as stabilizers volatizing and tape stock becoming brittle

frequent head cleaning and demagnetiztion was considered a must

does anyone do that today?

here are 4 SA-XG's that I have, same mechanism as the MA-XG

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SCOTCH 3M FeCr Master III 90

Btoo:

Please check your PM.

Thanks

replied to your PM

Thanks, btoo!!

TDK HD-01 Head demagnetizer

TDK HC-01 Head cleaning Tape(Dry type)

that is realy unbelievable!
An amazing collection fj!

I have found my JHF46!!

here are some of them.

oho! that is a whole museum for itself now man!
great!
best wishes
jens

Folks, it don't get any older than these!

From 1964.

Ha!Nice two!

Maybe they came with this one...
(aka philips-22rr482)

that is so kewl!! tapes from the 60s imagine that MISSION IMPOSSIBLE tapes nice!!!

From what I remember, Mission Impossible used mini-reel recorders...but I get the gist of it.

Today, I pictured some of still sealed vintage SONY tapes ( most are type I II III, 2 of them are type IV). For those seal broken ones, I just leave them alone.

here's a couple from the early '70s

ugly '80s...

more '80s...the top ones seem to last forever...the ones on the bottem have my vote for best sounding type 1 of all time...

Do you actually use them or is it only something to look at it?

8track,
I have well over 200 albums recorded on those Maxell XL-1 C90's.

Well, I don't record on them anymore..but they still playback just fine.
Good choice Gene.. I'll bet they still sound like new.

Found one of these old Certrons. Not the best tape in the world, but my faves when I was a kid. I just had to post a pic...8)

quote:

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Originally posted by 8track:
Certron

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hey, i've got one of those. probably not quite the same age, though.

i decided to put a metal reel cassette in the graphics for the boomboxpc. it's kind of a hybrid of a National and a TDK. this seems like the right place to post it.

I suggest you use CVS brand Open reel .

Beacuse It was made by HITACHI/MAXELL.

If you need CVS frontal close up picture. I will send you soon.

quote:

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Originally posted by FYJ2972:
I suggest you use CVS brand Open reel .

Beacuse It was made by HITACHI/MAXELL.

If you need CVS frontal close up picture. I will send you soon.

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man, i wish i had asked if anybody had any they could take pics of before i started, because i just spent over half the day working on that graphic. it's probably too late to turn back now.

thanks for the offer though. i still might take you up on it. you should post the pics anyway. there aren't many pics of that type of cassette on the web.

i found this site while looking for hitachi logo. not sure if the link has been posted already.

http://www.melofanas.lt/1left/kol/kolekcija.htm

tons of cassettes.. all brands.

Hey...Anyone remember the LORAN series of cassettes. Their claim to fame is the use of the Lexan housing which supposedly inhibits extreme heat (such as car dashboards, etc.) As far as sound goes, they were just okay. I guess the novelty of it is the whole Lexan thing. And the design is way eighties!

yes, i do remember those.a friend of mine had one.i think maxell or tdk made something similar not exactly sure..to preventage warpage.

loran

nice find, thats definately a sure collectible among cassettes...

old cassette ads

basf