Update: aight, I’m keeping it. Check out my new next gen audio rig 3000:
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I cleaned it out and it seems to work fine. The drive belts seem okay: not dry, but maybe a little loose, although the BPM of the music sounds about right. I paid $50 for it.

I have no bloody idea why I’d need it or would want to keep it. I just wanted to try it out, knowing that the store’s policy is “no questions asked” if I return it within 30 days. Also, retro is fun…?🤣

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        • Ned@quokk.auEnglish
          3·
          9 days ago

          Omg Maxwell flashbacks

          I don’t know how you didn’t instantly think mixtapes when you saw it

          The painstaking hours were the point

          Journey before destination 😉

          • Ned@quokk.auEnglish
            3·
            9 days ago

            leaving typo as “Maxwell” gives a different 90s flashback coffee this time

    • Handles@leminal.spaceEnglish
      2·
      10 days ago

      My one remaining tape is a mix I recorded in my late teens, put together to ruin other people’s parties. One or two dance songs, then a burst of death metal, then some more pop before whatever schlager or polka BS I could find in my parents’ collection. And so forth for 90 minutes.

      Unsurprisingly, nobody would let me near the stereo at parties after a while, and joke’s on me. I’m stuck with the Tape of Terror all those years later 🤣

      It might be fun to compose mix tapes again, but you’d have to find other cassette deck owners to share them with.