Post #1510923
2026-04-21 23:03 UTC
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@Iunnrais@piefed.social 2026-04-22 01:26
Cassette just means a small case, compact enough that you can plug the entire case straight into your machine. A “normal” sized case would be one of those metal canisters that store 8mm movie reels, and you need to take the tape out of those to use them.
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@LePoisson@lemmy.world 2026-04-22 00:09
Kind of cool that as storage media on tape shrunk in physical size and grew in data storage the term cassette started to change use in shorthand parlance. It's a generic term but yeah to everyone nowadays a cassette would be one of these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassette_tape That wiki article has more examples in it of older ones too and competitors if you feel like a little random reading.
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@DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 2026-04-21 23:31
Video Cassette Recorder, VCR. As opposed to reel-to-reel video recorders: 