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Topic: Muntz Cartridge

  30th Jan 2015, 10:49 PM
Trainman

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The 8 tracks were 1/4" tape, but as I recall, they may have had oxide on both sides and were spliced in a Mobius strip configuration to double the playing time (I can't find one at the moment to check, there might be a box of 'em out in the garage somewhere). Another problem was the binder in the tape tended to deteriorate, and if you didn't play them at least once every couple months, they'd dissolve inside into a gummy mess of tape glued to itself, and the first time you tried to play it , it wound around the capstan and destroyed itself (not to mention needing to almost take the machine apart to get the gummed up tape out)


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