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The last audio cassette factory [video] (youtube.com)
20 points by ds on Sept 4, 2015 | hide | past | favorite | 6 comments


My first guess was 'ho-hum, somewhere in the bowels of China and who cares'.

Then I noticed the Vietnamese media name and thought, 'oh, it's in Vietnam. A little more interesting.'

But it's in Springfield Missouri. What?

They have Revox(!) components.

The label printer is affixed with duct tape.

They have equipment from 1938. It's fully depreciated :-)


Web version/framing of this: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-09-01/this-compa...

Rather cool, we do all sorts of interesting things in flyover country, Springfield, MO is 70 miles east of where I was born, raised, and have retired to.


I bought a bunch of cassette tapes earlier this year from Tapeline (tapeline.info). Based in Stockport, Cheshire, UK. Bought both custom-length blank cassettes (for replacing broken ZX Spectrum game cassette tapes), and cassette boxes (single and jewel case).


The police still use them a lot: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20556330


Did they intentionally add tape hiss to the video???


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