@[email protected] to Lemmy [email protected] • 2 months agoYou really have to reach back to remember how THIS worked in your carlemmy.worldimagemessage-square63fedilinkarrow-up1631
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minus-squareno bananalinkfedilink11•edit-22 months agoThe player reads a magnetic tape. Put the same reader inside the cassette and reverse it, now the player reads a reader.
minus-square@[email protected]OPlinkfedilink13•2 months agoYou shoved the cassette into your car radio and plugged the other end into a cd player
minus-squarepeopleproblemslinkfedilink14•2 months agoComputer Engineer here, studied QED and E&M. This is the most accurate answer
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish29•2 months agoInstead 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.
minus-squarestebolinkfedilink4•2 months agodamn I thought it was writing the tape in real time that would be insane
Like how did these even work??
The player reads a magnetic tape. Put the same reader inside the cassette and reverse it, now the player reads a reader.
You shoved the cassette into your car radio and plugged the other end into a cd player
Computer Engineer here, studied QED and E&M.
This is the most accurate answer
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.
damn I thought it was writing the tape in real time that would be insane
Technology connections explains it very well