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Return of the audio cassette [The Guardian]
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I've bought more cassettes lately than any other form of music..yes I'm a child of the 80's. Come to think of it, vinyl is a close second.
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"I grew up listening to tapes," says Canadian Al Bjornaa, who set up his label Scotch Tapes in 2008. "It was kind of cool how each tape sounded different depending on what cassette deck you used." Bjornaa even reuses old cassettes as well as fresh blanks. "You can sometimes still hear the original music playing behind the new tracks. It adds a certain something that makes each cassette unique." And unlike MP3s, which encourage the listener to dismantle albums into their constituent tracks, the cassette "helps preserve the notion of 'the album' as a complete work of art."
The Atari 2600 'Jukebox' [Kotaku]
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"installed an LED screen in the cartridge bay that allows the operator to cycle through and select games."
The HP-85: iPhone of the 1980s [TechWatch | Fast Company]
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"..in 1979, you could snag yourself an HP-85A for about $3,200; for your money, you got 16K of RAM, a 256x192 screen, tape drive, integrated printer, and 12-digit keypad--all in a 20-pound enclosure designed for "portability."
Cool story on "The House Collectors" [NYT]
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"One of her recent purchases, for $3,000, was the Knolle-Ripple House, an early 19th century building she bought from the owner of the pasture where it has sat abandoned, slowly rotting and being reclaimed by vines and scrub brush. She plans to move it to Lonesome Pine Ranch — one of three ranches she owns with her husband near this town an hour and a half from Houston."
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