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past solutions for present problems since 2009 // resting on traditional territories of the Arapaho, Cheyenne, and Ute Nations

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mediaarchaeologylab , to random
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today's oddity...

Cassette adaptor for 8-track players

mediaarchaeologylab OP ,
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as always the manual illustrations are delightful

mediaarchaeologylab OP ,
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maybe we should write something about these sorts of audio adaptors... in this age of losing access to media because of technological change, there's something in acknowledging that actually we've always had to come up with ways to work around "progress"

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testing time - works great! which is awesome, because our cassette player is way less reliable than our 8-track player 😆

cassette adaptor with cassette inserted in 8-track player

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@phooky we do not have one currently in the building but that is on the list of things to try... that and one of the bluetooth-to-cassette adaptors. we may need to do a little teardown at some point though.

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@phooky it powers itself off the internal voltage of the 8track player though - idk how familiar you are with them, but most don't power up until you insert a cartridge (the cartridge completes the circuit)

mediaarchaeologylab , to random
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so if anyone has a soon to be bricked Spotify Car Thing... we will happily take one to add to our shelf of "hardware that would continue to work just fine if it weren't for capitalism being capitalism" (we're still working on the name)

edit: thanks to @dgfitch and @Mabande for getting us to Corporolized Hardware, as in "enshittification in it's final stage a fossilized piece of corporate shit"
feels like we should tag @pluralistic in on this one 🌈

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