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Subject: Re: Best Possible
From: Dan Dugan <>
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 17:07:10 -0800
Walt, you wrote

>When cassette came out I was highly disappointed to have it push reel to
>reel out.

I was upset that people would play them on the air, not "broadcast
quality," but I got over it.

>The quality of consumer analog tape recordings would have a
>different history if all the development lavished on cassette had of
>been on reel to reel.

But cassette changed the world; it made the ability to record sound
anywhere affordable to anyone, and possible without an elaborate
setup.

-Dan Dugan


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