Digitizing audio cassettes and extracting the contents of digital cartridges.
Linux for blind general discussion
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Thu Sep 14 09:17:54 UTC 2017
I still have an APH player/recorder. Haven't used it in years. Anyone
want it?
Janina
Linux for blind general discussion writes:
> APH used to sell a 4-track player/recorder. It also had the 2 speeds and
> analog VSC (variable speech control) as well.
> I also seem to recall that there was another one called the talkman.
> I actually owned the APH one.
> kp
>
>
>
> On Wed, 13 Sep 2017, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
>
> > I still have one of those cassette decks, and compared to that, the
> > cartridge player is downright tiny. That said, while I think it a
> > shame there was never(at least to my knowledge) a walkman-style
> > cassette player capable of playing single tracks or adjusting playback
> > speed, those yellow bricks are actually quite compact compared to most
> > of the non-Walkman-style cassette players I remember from my
> > childhood(Less awkward to lug around than even a mini boombox for
> > sure), and while Wikipedia informs me Sony released the original
> > Walkman in the late 70s, it was the mid-90s before I ever saw a
> > pocket-sized media player of any kind, and while I'm not sure when the
> > NLS Cassette deck first came out, I'd assume its older than me
> > considering it features in some of my earliest memories(for reference,
> > I was born in 1986).
> >
> > --
> > Sincerely,
> >
> > Jeffery Wright
> > President Emeritus, Nu Nu Chapter, Phi Theta Kappa.
> > Former Secretary, Student Government Association, College of the Albemarle.
> >
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