Fascinating Vintage 20 Cassette Carousel from 1972 : Panasonic RS 296 US

RetroTech: According to the adverts the Panasonic RS296US could play 2. 5 days of music roughly the same play time to the 1000 songs in your pocket that the first 5GB Apple iPod boasted in 2001. NOTE 2. 5 days of play time equates to 60 hours which would require 20x 180min cassettes. Whilst these tapes did exist at one point, 180minute lengths were also very fragile and best avoided. A more realistic play time is to load this machine up with 20x 90minute 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. Links The Antikythera Mechanism I mention at the beginning is a 2000 year old computer that has been in a number of documentaries someone has uploaded a BBC video about it here: Since Deleted You may have spotted two special cassettes in the video a Back to the Future Replica Edward Van Halen tape and a Guardians of the Galaxy Awesome Mix Tape Vol. 1 both were provided b