brent@itm.UUCP (Brent) (04/16/84)
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One more chapter to wrap up cassettes:
How do you get cassettes in those little flip-top boxes with
the artwork inside and the shrink-wrap outside? It is done by
a machine of German manufacture, whose proper name escapes me at
the moment. It is never called by its proper name anyway. It's
called "The Green Machine". Aptly named. It's painted a gross
shade of pea-green. It's about eight feet long,
four feet high and three feet deep. You put cassettes, artcards,
and cases in, and it puts them together, shrink wraps them, and
pops them out the far end. Amazing machine. They are monstrously
stupid machines: not a microprocessor to be found. The technology
is about 20 years old, yet they work fine.
Personal notes: I use Maxell UD XL-II C-90s in a Nakamichi
480. I think metal tape isn't worth it. You'll never be able
to tell the difference between metal and UD XL-II in a good deck.
I use Dolby B. I don't use tapes too much. I play the albums.
I don't have a cassette player in my car, as I feel stereo in a
car is a contradiction in terms.
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Brent Laminack (akgua!itm!brent)