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New Category: TAPE find of the day?!?

Looked at a 1984 willie nelson tape yesterday & finally realized it was labelled CR o2. were lots of prerecorded units or very few done on chrome tape?
 
The fake TEACs aren't close but they do look cool for shelve queens. Great find jqp500, those things have never lost value.
 
Bone Yard said:
The fake TEACs aren't close but they do look cool for shelve queens. Great find jqp500, those things have never lost value.
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I was pretty amazed to find them. Funny thing was that as I was talking with another customer at the estate sale and mentioning how rare these tapes were, an elderly lady who was listening in said that she had several of them in a different color she wants to get rid of. We exchanged phone numbers and I will be picking them up soon.
 
Post em if you find them! I keep telling people that they need to ask for equipment, a lot of this old stuff is just sitting in desks or boxes waiting for a new home.
 
Bone Yard said:
Post em if you find them! I keep telling people that they need to ask for equipment, a lot of this old stuff is just sitting in desks or boxes waiting for a new home.
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I always ask. A while back I was picking up really nice stereo cabinet that was a "curb find" and asked the owner if they had any really old stereo equipment. They ended up giving me a Sherwood S-7310 Quad receiver in mint, I meant mint condition. Bought a nice Teac GE 20 equalizer at a yard sale and asked if they had any old stereo gear. They did. Ended up with a pair of Sony SS-890 speakers...incredibly rare here in the USA. I have also picked up at least 100 cassettes for free just by asking.
 
Nothing special, but still sealed...

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I got 2 cassettes today :)

1) Carly Simon - Anticipation (First release - No dolby,etc)
2) Elton John - First US album (First release - No dolby,etc) - I also have the record
 
Pretty happy with this yard sale buy this past Saturday. The American Airlines tapes have always been on my "radar"...now I have three! Sound really good for 3 3/4 ips. The Akai 4 channel discreet demonstration tape was the big tape score for me. Nice addition to the Akai 1730 D SS (Quad) deck in my system. The tape splice kit was also included in the sale.

Unrelated to tape but also in the haul is the Audio Technica AT13 cartridge/headshell combo rtr tapes.jpg Akai tape.jpg
and 2 new AT generic styli. The blue stylus is a bonded shibata.
 
My mom said I had a box at here house that had some of my stuff in it. The box had been with her at least since the 90's. I found these in there. [Not the Maxell UR60]
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