You must have a very sturdy version there, because the ones that were here in the tropics, where the temperatures can reach 38 to 41°C those did not survive for a long time, before their heads got out of alignment and they got magnetized quite fast too
In the tropics the belts of such a recorder were destroyed in about 8 years they just dried up & snapped
#RetroComputing #Commodore #VIC20 #Datasette #Cassette #Tapes #FlightSimulator
Dendrobatus Azureus /
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2025-01-18 21:29:21
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