[Coco] Rom Pac Cases was Got the SDC

[Bill Pierce]

Juan,
I actually have every one of those albums on vinyl except one (yes, I still have a turntable AND big speakers :-)
The only one I don't have is the Paul Macartney album. I probably have over 500 vinyl albums, some VERY rare.

I used to have a 4 channel reel-to-reel that had a vari-speed that was wide enough for the speed of an 8-track tape.
The guy I got it from had replaced the heads with heads from a quadraphonic 8-track recorder (and re-biased). You could wind the tape from an 8-track onto a reel and play it on the deck as well as record (in quad) and rewind them back to the cart if you wanted. First the belts went, then after running with the wrong belt (too tight) the motor went and so it's buried in my "audio" graveyard in storage.
I guess that was one real advantage to 8-tracks was that you could get a cheep alternative to a "true" quad system without spending thousands on a quad reel-to-reel.
I guess I have at least 200 8-tracks in storage and doubt they would play today. My vinyl albums still play perfectly, though it is getting harder to find needles and cartridges for the direct drive turntable.


Bill Pierce
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-----Original Message-----
From: Juan Castro <jccyc1965 at gmail.com>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Tue, Feb 18, 2014 9:38 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] Rom Pac Cases was Got the SDC


I couldn't bring myself to destroy THOSE tapes. :(


On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 9:13 PM, Arthur Flexser <flexser at fiu.edu> wrote:

> There are various collections of 8-track tapes available cheaply on eBay,
> such as this one, with a current $3 bid for 18 tapes:
>
>
> http://www.ebay.com/itm/8-track-lot-18-assorted-Beatles-Led-Zeppelin-Moody-Blues-case-no-reserve-/251450700674?pt=Music_Other_Formats&hash=item3a8ba13382
>
> Art
>
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 2:48 PM, Bill Pierce <ooogalapasooo at aol.com>
> wrote:
>
> >
> > If you guys can't find emclosures for the SDC, if you have (or know where
> > to locate) some old 8-track tape (audio) catridges, they can be made to
> > work.
> > Here's what I posted some time ago:
> >
> > In another discussion on this list, I mentioned that old 8-track tape
> > catridges
> > could be used to make cases for rompaks.
> > In browsing in my old mags for some other info, I ran across the article
> > that I
> > got the rompak info from.
> > The article was in the March 1982 issue of "80 Microcomputing Magazine"
> on
> > page
> > 338. Ironically, the article is by our own Dennis Kitsz :-)
> > Here is a link to the actual article which also highly details how the
> > Coco uses
> > the ROMS as well. The part about the 8-track carts is near the end of the
> > article.
> >
> >
> >
> http://archive.org/stream/80-microcomputing-magazine-1982-03/80Microcomputing_0382#page/n337/mode/2up
> >
> > The actual directions are on page 343
> > I hope this is of interest to those who are doing rompak projects :-)
> >
> >
> >
>
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