Panasonic autochange and auto-reverse cassette deck that could play music for 2 days.

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VioletPeacock on September 11st, 2021 at 08:13 UTC »

I grew up with cassettes and this is sweeeet. I had no idea these were a thing!

fairysdad on September 11st, 2021 at 08:48 UTC »

Techmoan did a video on this a while (well, five years) back: clicky clicky.

Incidentally, for the '2 days' comment/feature, in the video info, Mr Moan writes:

2.5 days of play time equates to 60 hours which would require 20x 180-min cassettes. Whilst these tapes did exist at one point, 180-minute lengths were also very fragile and best avoided.

A more realistic play time is to load this machine up with 20x 90-minute cassettes which gives you 30 hours, and that's why I refer to the 'day and a half' of continuous music at the end of video.

Meltedwhisky on September 11st, 2021 at 08:57 UTC »

Or it could play 9 Grateful Dead shows.