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Your parents in 640x480 glory. (thelemmy.club)
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I took a lot of photos with a lot of people during the late 90's. I wonder if those backup CDs in storage are still good.

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[–] 2 points 4 months ago (4 children)

I never heard any one call those cassettes. Everyone I know just called then tapes. But your usage is correct according to Wikipedia.

I always figured cassettes were small.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Kind of cool that as storage media on tape shrunk in physical size and grew in data storage the term cassette started to change use in shorthand parlance.

    It's a generic term but yeah to everyone nowadays a cassette would be one of these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassette_tape

    That wiki article has more examples in it of older ones too and competitors if you feel like a little random reading.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    Cassette just means a small case, compact enough that you can plug the entire case straight into your machine. A “normal” sized case would be one of those metal canisters that store 8mm movie reels, and you need to take the tape out of those to use them.

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