• no banana
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      2 months ago

      The player reads a magnetic tape. Put the same reader inside the cassette and reverse it, now the player reads a reader.

      • peopleproblems
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        142 months ago

        Computer Engineer here, studied QED and E&M.

        This is the most accurate answer

    • @[email protected]
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      292 months ago

      Instead of running a magnetic tape over the cassette player’s sensor, you put an electromagnet on it powered by the headphone jack. The cassette player just reads the magnetic field and doesn’t know any difference.

      • stebo
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        42 months ago

        damn I thought it was writing the tape in real time that would be insane