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Comment by functionmouse

3 days ago

> and be fine.

lolno those things were a finicky failure prone analog nightmare.

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ssl-3  2 days ago

Compared to what? CDs that would skip on movement or scratch and skip worse? CD-R that would delaminate? Vinyl records? The continuous-loop abomination of 8-track?

Compact cassette tapes were profoundly robust compared to everything else.

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