The Commodore Datasette Gets an 80s Boombox Makeover
Those who are old enough to remember the early era of personal computing will never forget loading software from cassette tapes. But unlike the classic games that provided countless hours of entertainment, there was nothing good about cassettes — well, aside from the fact that they were cheap, anyway. If it wasn’t for the outrageous costs at the time, everyone would have used a disk drive instead.
Because they were never really much loved, cassette drives don’t get much use from enthusiasts today. They tend to sit on a shelf, while a modern flash drive does the real work of storing and loading data. Jan Derogee thinks this is a shame, so he found a way to repurpose the classic Commodore 1530 Datasette. Derogee turned a Datasette into perhaps the most obvious thing aside from a storage device: a boombox.
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