C15 cassette tapes
I was just wondering what people's thoughts were about the size of the market for C15 computer cassettes?
I have just been contacted by someone who used to run a computer shop in the 1980s and he has a large stock of these around the house, still sealed.
Are people still needing these, or will they just sit around my house?
I have just been contacted by someone who used to run a computer shop in the 1980s and he has a large stock of these around the house, still sealed.
Are people still needing these, or will they just sit around my house?
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:) might be nice IF they aren't labelled if maybe some new games were made.
I'd say if you could get them cheap enough they'd be worth getting...If I'd been in the UK I would have bought 10 or 20 myself.
Depends how much he wants for them I suppose.
Better because on longer tapes C60 C90 etc the tape stretches over time easier...and as any naughty schoolboy remembers then games near the end of the C90 your mate made for you never worked!
If they are unlabelled, then I agree, there may be some value - I can't believe that they get listed on ebay at ?2.50 each !! However, I think I would end up storing them for 10 years and then disposing of them all - even if all the active users on here bought 10 tapes for ?5, I doubt that would make even the slightest dint in the pile (he is talking about 40,000 tapes!)
www.rwapsoftware.co.uk
www.sellmyretro.com
Mind you I could have bought all of them and left a trail of frustrated tape fiends out there, who knows.
Thanks for the email Rich - if the seller IS who I think it is, prepare for some haggling... (and for god sake don't accept a cup of tea....)
Which might be useful today, if you use tape at all - if so, chances are you'll want to load something, but use other storage to keep the rest of your Spectrum software collection (flash cards, .tzx's/snapshots etc. on PC, a few original tapes). "long enough, but no longer" would be optimal then.
Sucker! :-P Just buy for personal use, any more & you'd just be swapping money for something that's near-impossible to get rid of.
Chaosmongers has hit the nail on the head about who it is with these tapes in store :-)
I will pass on this opportunity and let them be consigned to landfill I guess.
www.rwapsoftware.co.uk
www.sellmyretro.com
Cronosoft bought in 200 new blank tapes last December, with library cases, for ?66 delivered.
www.tapeline.info
Just a thought.
but getting em off music tapes etc.. is another option i guess