It’s interesting how an advert like this takes you right back to the Eighties (1982 in this case), and the height of the cassette boom. At the time a vinyl album was around £4.00 in Smiths (pre-recorded tapes about 50p more), and you could get two albums (“whatever you’re recording” as the text coyly puts it!) onto a C90, so it was no wonder blank tapes were the bane of record labels. Don’t ask me what the difference between the two types was, I was confused at the time by all the differences and worried about wearing my tape heads out if I used the wrong formula!). And we’ve just lost W H Smiths to the marvels of rebranding too.
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Well, that takes me back!
I remember when the local W. H. Smith started to stock TDK C110 tapes, more time than a C90, not as prone to stretching as a C120, it was the future!
I used to have a brilliant tape deck that would pause whilst recording without leaving a gap or tail-off in the music recorded. Dividing the number of minutes on a tape by the number of albums I then had I came up with a time, in seconds, and then recorded that number of seconds from each album onto a tape. The tape played beautifully, a snippet from one album before moving seamlessly onto the next snippet. Oh man, I wish I still had that tape… 😄