Comments on: Project C-90: Insanely Huge Cassette Tape Collection Site Expands

By: Ryan Purcell

Ryan Purcell — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 23:19:43 +0000

90% of the audio out there is not available on iTunes or even CD format. The only way to get all of the music that is currently on tapes and LPs in digital is to either digitize it yourself or have someone do it for you. There is an article about that at

Reclaim Media

By: Bobbi

Bobbi — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:36:34 +0000

I salute you who still listen to tapes. I too have a lot of my old tapes, but I am also, like one of you, am digitizing them. People keep on saying go to iTunes and download songs, but some of the tapes I have are out of print or not available on iTunes at all. Just yesterday I picked up more tapes from the same store: I go just about once a week and buy them for pennies on the dollar. Some time back I also found some blank cassettes still in the pack!

BTW, I was really shocked and pleased to have come across a still working Sony Walkman at the thrift store. I put some lithium batteries in it and it’s was so great to put in a tape and listen to it!

By: Apocalypso Facto

Apocalypso Facto — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 01:07:23 +0000

Oh, the memories… I used to have lots of TDK’s and Sony’s, and in fact, I still have them, somewhere at my mom’s, kept in boxes, I just don’t play them anymore. Guess I haven’t played cassette tapes since the last century… :-D

By: zenzen

zenzen — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 20:26:03 +0000

Excellent project! What a thrill seeing some of those old designs again. Now if only you get get production/availability dates for the tapes. If you had asked me 15 years ago, I could have identified the progression of Maxell, Sony, and TDK designs. Now, not a clue.

By: BirdFLU

BirdFLU — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 06:17:36 +0000

I’m still rockin’ the true bastard child of technology; the Digital Compact Cassette! DCC 4 ever!

By: Oliver Chesler

Oliver Chesler — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:05:30 +0000

I love my boxes of cassettes. Slowly I’m making them digital but I’ll never ever throw them away.

By: haplishe

haplishe — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:57:11 +0000

Hi! I’m an author of “Project C-90″. You can see brand new version at http://www.c-90.org/

Haplishe

By: Peter Kirn

Peter Kirn — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:15:03 +0000

@Sven — interesting, but Project C-90 has about twice as many tapes, and running.

I think having two languages side by side nicely reflects the way cassette packaging used to look. Anyway, doesn’t everyone read Russian? ;)

By: Sven

Sven — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:42:00 +0000

Making every page bilingual is really bad usability and shows you don’t know how to create real websites. I was interested i the page, but after having to manually filter out 50% of the content on every page after looking at it then realizing that I don’t actually read russion is super-frustrating.

Nice that there is also http://www.tapedeck.org/, which has the same mission :-)

By: ronnie

ronnie — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:53:12 +0000

I know many people also bought tapes, but for me the tape was more like a “blank canvas”. Something you could be actively involved in, from what you’d record on it to how you’d mark/decorate the tapes and cases.

I’d copy clips from radio (even computer software that was broadcast), sit in front of the tv to record obscure stuff from late night mtv and use multiple cassette decks to glue together various guitar parts and beats created with my Casio toy keyboard.

It’s so cool to see so many tapes on the Project C-90 site that look familiar to me, and I can almost hear what music was on the tapes I have/had, and see the writing I put on them.