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@avavsystems@mastodon.world @obsoletemediauk@mastodon.world This is fascinating: Streamer cassettes can be used in an audio cassette deck, but the formulation of tape they contain is optimized only for full-saturation square wave digital data, resulting in audio recordings made on them having very poor audio quality and a large amount of noise and distortion. Via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D/CAS I'd love to know how long it took to write 600MB to one of these. 'Serpentine' isn't helical (like video) it's "one track at a time, the drive reversing direction at the end of the tape, and each track's data written in the opposite direction to its neighbour".