Digitizing audio cassettes and extracting the contents of digital cartridges.

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Mon Sep 11 15:34:51 UTC 2017


After figuring out how to get Amazon to show me everything being sold
on the Amazon Marketplace by Perkins, I found that they offer a Belkin
USB extension cable. Given the context, I'm assuming this particular
cable either lacks the usual guard on the female end, has a guard thin
enough to fit the gap around the cartridge's male connector, or has
been modified by Perkins to remove the guard. In any event, I've
ordered one of these cables(at worst, I'm out five dollars and have
another spare cable in my box of cables).

And yeah, paying closer attention, Amazon gives a back-in-stock date
of November 1st for the 16GB carts.

Interesting to hear that the player runs on Linux and has gone so long
without a firmware upgrade. Feels like forever ago that Linux 3.0 came
out and that anything using a 2.x kernel should be in a museum rather
than on production machines(even if the machines in question are
players designed for a very specific format and were produced as a
replacement for older tech that was more than a decade overdue for
replacement(though, considering that NLS format cassettes could fit up
to 8 hours compared with CD's 80 minutes, I can see why they stuck
with cassettes long after everyone else abandoned them).

-- 
Sincerely,

Jeffery Wright
President Emeritus, Nu Nu Chapter, Phi Theta Kappa.
Former Secretary, Student Government Association, College of the Albemarle.




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