Cassette Tape Shortage

Shortage

In a world of digital sound many audio fans are heading back to vinyl and cassettes.  The reasons are many and one is just the idea that these formats are time tested unlike almost all digital methods that have been superseded ever five or so years, think floppies, mini floppies, zip drives, Bernoulli drives, and of course the ever changing operating system non interchangeability.

I still keep many cassette tapes around from the 70's and 80's though I will admit that I no longer have any 8 tracks.  :)


Hang onto your cassette tapes as they come in handy for many things including revisiting long lost recordings that you can always re-record onto some digital format by audio methods.  Now I'm waiting for VHS tapes to come back.  Probably not.  But I still have about four players and a hundred cassettes.  You never know.

Why is this relevant to survival?

Because often what is old is more tested and can be relied upon as a fallback just like revolvers are still around many years later than they were thought outmoded.  They still work very well.