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Micky<p><a href="https://digipres.club/tags/digipresadventcalendar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>digipresadventcalendar</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/day14" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>day14</span></a></p><p>The microcasette was released in 1969, only 6 years after the compact cassette. Battling against the competing mini cassette format for a short time, the predominant use cases for micro cassettes were dictaphones (including field recordings) and answering machines. However, like their much larger sibling compact cassette, microcassettes were also used for data storage, mainly for machine operations.</p><p>My specimen is a Sanyo MC60 blank tape, ca. late 1990s.</p>
Micky<p><a href="https://digipres.club/tags/digipresadventcalendar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>digipresadventcalendar</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/day12" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>day12</span></a></p><p>Today’s entry is a special form of audio tape: the tape letter. It’s a bit like an analog voice mail and it was fairly popular b/w the 1960s - early 80s. Companies like BASF sold the tape complete with a mailing case. Tapes typically held 7.5min.</p><p>My specimen is a BASF Briefband, 1979, that was send to my father-in-law who was in a tape exchange club throughout Germany. The label on the back indicated that the content is an “information tape” and not merchandise</p>
Micky<p><a href="https://digipres.club/tags/digipresadventcalendar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>digipresadventcalendar</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/day11" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>day11</span></a></p><p>Today’s data carrier is the reel-to-reel tape or Magnetophone tape. The Magnetophone machine was invented by the German AEG in the 1930s, with materials for carriers being provided by BASF. <br>Magnetophone Tapes come in many different sizes &amp; qualities.<br>Reel-to-reel was used widely until the 1970s.</p><p>My specimen is an BASF PES 35 long play (polyester) from the 1960s. In those days the carrier boxes were absolutely beautiful … and had plenty of room for metadata.</p>
Micky<p><a href="https://digipres.club/tags/digipresadventcalendar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>digipresadventcalendar</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/day6" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>day6</span></a></p><p>In size comparison to yesterday‘s 8“ the name „minidisk“ that some vendors used for the 5.25“ floppy seems justified. Shows that things are always relative. The memories I have about vivid trade circles of copied C64 games on „flippies“, double-sided 5.25“ are sure sign of my age. This data carrier with a storage size of 360KB-1.2MB is probably the most „emotional“ one for me.</p><p>This specimen is an original release of the 1988 „Supersports“ for Commodore 64/128</p>
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